to enact into law

  • 1enact — en·act /i nakt/ vt: to establish by legal and authoritative act: make into law enact a bill Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. enact …

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  • 2Law of the People's Republic of China — is the legal regime of the People s Republic of China, with the separate legal traditions and systems of Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau. Between 1954 and 1978, there was not very much effort within the People s Republic of China to create a …

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  • 3enact — [v1] act out; accomplish achieve, appear as, depict, discourse, do, execute, go on*, perform, personate, play, playact, play the part of, portray, represent; concepts 91,292 Ant. fail, hinder, repeal, stop enact [v2] authorize, legislate… …

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  • 4enact — [[t]ɪnæ̱kt[/t]] enacts, enacting, enacted 1) VERB When a government or authority enacts a proposal, they make it into a law. [TECHNICAL] [V n] The authorities have failed so far to enact a law allowing unrestricted emigration... [V n] The bill… …

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  • 5Law of the Republic of Ireland — The Republic of Ireland has a common law legal system with a written constitution which provides for a parliamentary democracy based on the British parliamentary system albeit with a popularly elected president, representative democracy, a… …

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  • 6enact — /ɛnˈækt / (say en akt), /ən / (say uhn ) verb (t) 1. to make into an act or statute; to pass (a bill) into law. 2. to ordain; decree. 3. to represent on or as on the stage; act the part of: to enact Hamlet. –enactor, noun …

  • 7enact — v 1. make into law, establish as law, legislate, pass into law, ratify, sanction, approve; decree, ordain, rule, adjudge, pronounce, proclaim. 2. act, play the part of, portray, represent on the stage, personate, impersonate, personify …

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  • 8enact — transitive verb Date: 15th century 1. to establish by legal and authoritative act; specifically to make (as a bill) into law 2. act out < enact a role > • enactor noun …

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  • 9enact — verb (T) 1 to make a proposal into law: Congress refused to enact the bill. 2 formal to act in a play, story etc: a drama enacted on a darkened stage enactment noun (C, U) …

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  • 10enact — verb a) to make (a bill) into law b) to act the part of; to play See Also: act …

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