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Positive :: Positive (a.) Prescribed by express enactment or institution; settled by arbitrary appointment; said of laws.

Enact :: Enact (n.) Purpose; determination.

Institution :: Institution (n.) Established order, method, or custom; enactment; ordinance; permanent form of law or polity..

Penal :: Penal (a.) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code..

Rescind :: Rescind (v. t.) Specifically, to vacate or make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or by superior authority; to repeal; as, to rescind a law, a resolution, or a vote; to rescind a decree or a judgment..

Enact :: Enact (v. t.) To act the part of; to represent; to play.

Enactive :: Enactive (a.) Having power to enact or establish as a law.

Canon :: Canon (n.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority..

Ultra Vires :: Ultra vires () Beyond power; transcending authority; -- a phrase used frequently in relation to acts or enactments by corporations in excess of their chartered or statutory rights.

Constitution :: Constitution (n.) An authoritative ordinance, regulation or enactment; especially, one made by a Roman emperor, or one affecting ecclesiastical doctrine or discipline; as, the constitutions of Justinian..

Enactor :: Enactor (n.) One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law.

Parliament :: Parliament (n.) The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws..

Enacting :: Enacting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enac.

Dysnomy :: Dysnomy (n.) Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws.

Enactment :: Enactment (n.) The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.

Nomothetical :: Nomothetical (a.) Legislative; enacting laws; as, a nomothetical power..

Vote :: Vote (v. t.) To enact, establish, grant, determine, etc., by a formal vote; as, the legislature voted the resolution..

Veto :: Veto (v. t.) To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment; as, to veto an appropriation bill..

Constitution :: Constitution (n.) The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation..

Staunch :: Statutory (a.) Enacted by statute; depending on statute for its authority; as, a statutory provision..

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