enactmentn.
/ɛˈnaktmənt/ 1.
a. The action of enacting (a law).
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society > law > legislation > [noun] > passing into law
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1817 Earl of Liverpool Speech in Evans Parl. Deb. I. 586 The enactment of the present bill.
1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 604 The enactment of them only confirmed men in their opinion.
1825 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. App. 113 The laws of the State, as well of British as of Colonial enactment.
1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral viii. 169 The enactment of the Six Articles.
b. The state or fact of being enacted.
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1885 Law Times 137/1 The draft Criminal Code..appears to be no..nearer to enactment than it was three years ago.
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a. That which is enacted; an ordinance of a legislative authority, a statute.
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society > law > [noun] > a legislative enactment
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1821 S. Smith Edinb. Rev. in Wks. (1859) I. 334/2 A prison is a place where men..should be made unhappy by public lawful enactments.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. i. 36 Many general enactments of this reign bear the same character of servility.
1862 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 635 Glass manufactories were crippled by harassing enactments.
1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People (1882) v. §2. 225 A crowd of enactments for the regulation of trade.
b. plural. The particular provisions of a law.
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society > law > [noun] > a law > intention, tendency, or provisions of
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1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) III. 83 We know neither the occasion which gave rise to it, nor the precise nature and extent of its enactments.
1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation ii. xi. 342 The enactments were such as might be expected to follow a preamble of this sort.
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3. The acting of a part or character in a play. rare. (In modern dictionaries.)
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attributive. Law. Designating (a clause containing) a statement of legislative authority prefixed to the provisions of a piece of legislation by which (in some jurisdictions) they are given the force of law, as enactment clause, enactment formula. Cf. enacting clauses at enacting adj.
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1825 Times 30 Mar. The act was ill drawn... As a penal statute, the enactment clause should specify distinctly the offence, whereas it left persons to infer it by comparison with the recital clause.
1841 Boston Recorder 16 July 115/3 The Land Distribution Bill was then taken up, the question being on a motion to strike out the enactment clause.
1933 Irish Times 11 Nov. 5/3 That the Act had been published by the Stationery Office..was prima facie evidence that it had been passed. The enactment clause was not necessary.
1955 Lok Sabha Deb. (India) 29 July 8871 The Enactment Formula and the Title were added to the bill.
1997 S. Šarčević New Approach to Legal Transl. v. 130 Early British statutes were formulated as a single sentence consisting of the enactment clause (‘Be it enacted’) and the enactment.
2014 H. Xanthaki Drafting Legislation vii. 142 There is no stage in the parliamentary process when the enactment formula is actually uttered.
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