The ripples spreading outwards from a legislative measure could not be thought to confer or infringe legal rights to an infinite degree.

Many of us now feel quietly pleased to live in a country that cares - and takes legislative measures to show it - about the poorest paid.

There has not been any legislative measures passed yet but steps are being taken.

Legislative measures by themselves are not likely to constitute constitutional compliance.

These legislative measures proved largely inefficient at regulating the market, but the government's repressive measures to enforce them caused public resentment.