Enactive

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having power to enact or establish as a law. not-comparable

    "[…] the case is as clear as the light, that this very statute is declarative of old fundamental law, not enactive of new law."

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"[…] the case is as clear as the light, that this very statute is declarative of old fundamental law, not enactive of new law."

Etymology

From enact + -ive.

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