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To act; to perform; to do; to effect. [Obs.] The king enacts more wonders than a man. Shak.

Having power to enact or establish as a law. Abp. Bramhall.

That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment.

One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law. Atterbury.

Enactment; resolution. [Obs.] Shak.

To enact again.

The act of re

The enacting or passing of a law a second time; the renewal of a law.

A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

th century to describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence, any puritanical laws. [U. S.] -- Blue light, a composition which burns with a brilliant blue flame; -- used in pyrotechnics and as a night signal at sea, and in military operations. -- Blue mantle (He…

A law enacted to provide for the regulation and supervision of investment companies in order to protect the public against companies that do not intend to do a fair and honest business and that offer investments that do not promise a fair return; -- so called because the promises made by some investment companies are a…

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. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second centry. Hock.

es for making communications at sea means of signals. Code civil or Code Napoleon, a code enacted in France in 1803 and 1804, embodying the law of rights of persons and of property generally. Abbot.

To cause to stand; to establish; to enact. Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority. Jer. Taylor.

The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.

Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining. Sir W. Hamilton.

Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town.

Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws. Cockeram.

To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain. By the consent of all, we were established The people's magistrates. Shak. Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed. Dan. vi. 8.

ence of a subsequent act; retrospective. Ex post facto law, a law which operates by after enactment. The phrase is popularly applied to any law, civil or criminal, which is enacted with a retrospective effect, and with intention to produce that effect; but in its true application, as employed in American law, it relate…