| 单词 | enabling act |
| 释义 | > as lemmasenabling act That enables: chiefly of legislative enactments. enabling statute: sometimes applied spec. to the act 32 Hen. VIII. c. 28, by which tenants-in-fee and certain other persons were ‘enabled’ to make leases. enabling act, a legislative enactment enabling or empowering a person or corporation to take certain action. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > strengthening > [adjective] strengthening1571 roborating1615 enabling1628 strengthing1672 steeling1849 fortifying1863 society > law > legislation > [adjective] > granting permission by legislation enabling1851 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. viii. sig. Iv It..wounds him, to the losse of inabling blood. 1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude xii. 245 I delight in education..because of its enabling powers. 1856 F. Pierce in Messages & Papers of Presidents (1896–9) V. 358 The States of California, Michigan and others were self-organized, and as such were admitted into the Union without a previous enabling act of Congress. 1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xix. 364 Let Congress pass an enabling act for that Territory. 1881 Times 17 Jan. 13/4 Mr. Crump urged that the statute was ‘enabling’. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Nov. 1/1 The enabling bill..is only a draft measure. 1919 Public Gen. Acts Index 609 Enabling Bill, The. See Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act (c. 76). 1965 Listener 20 May 745/1 This final power of approving or rejecting Assembly measures was reserved to Parliament in the Enabling Act of 1919. < as lemmas |
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