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Definition of Enacts
1. enact [v] - See also: enact
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enacts
Literary usage of Enacts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"The Metropolis Local Management Act' enacts, in g 1009A § 222, ... 36, \ 10,
enacts, that "every order, document, or instrument required by law to be under ..."
2. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"Section 2d enacts, " that when any person shall die M»y assign possessed of any
... Section 3d enacts, " that all gifts and grants made by the intestate, ..."
3. A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution: And Laws of the United States by John Bouvier (1874)
"Section 24 enacts that no suit- in equity shall be brought after the time ...
Section 25 enacts that in cases of express trust the right of the cestui que ..."
4. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"One of the later Lombard laws (AD 721) enacts that if any one go away for a matter
of business or of trade, whether within a province or out of it, ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"... be recognized even in the Courts of the United States sitting in equity,
because the statute constitutes a rule of property in the State that enacts it. ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The 10th relates to the registration of chattel mortgages; the 17th enacts that
every assignment, etc., of any estate in lands, or of goods, ..."
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