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enactory
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adjective
Law
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of or pertaining to an enactment that creates new rights and obligations.
Origin:
1835–45;
enact
+
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a writing or document executed under seal and delivered to effect a conveyance, especially of real estate
nullification or withdrawal, especially of an offer to contract
judicial deliverance from a criminal charge on a verdict or finding of not guilty
the power of the state to take private property for public use with payment of compensation to the owner
such constraint or coercion as will render void a contract or other legal act entered or performed under its influence
failure of a professional person, as a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence
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enact
(ɪnˈækt)
—
vb
1.
to make into an act or statute
2.
to establish by law; ordain or decree
3.
to represent or perform in or as if in a play; to act out
en'actable
—
adj
en'active
—
adj
en'actory
—
adj
en'actment
—
n
en'action
—
n
en'actor
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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