Legally established by federal or state laws, institutional coverages for such events as Flood Insurance or Medicare.

The act of giving or enacting laws. State v. Hyde, 121 Ind. 20, 22 N. E. 044.

Making or giving laws; pertaining to the function of law-making or to the process of enactment of laws. See IOvausville v. State, 118 Ind. 426, 21 N. E. 267, 4 […]

the term that describes an act and states what the future law will be for cases arising from it.

Constitutionally defined and authorized to legislate as a branch of government.

Drafting, proposing, debating, and enacting a particular statute based on the design, plan, and purpose the legislature had.

Enacting additional necessary restrictions instead of closing or preventing loophole abuse, as intended. For example, instead of changing one law to include everyone originally intended, the legislature enacts an unnecessary […]

the authority of a branch of government that is charged with making and enacting laws.

Potential risk of adverse effects on the returns from an investment as a probability from changing the tax laws.

One who makes laws; a member of a legislative body. Legislatorum est viva vox, rebus et non verbis legem imponere. The voice of legislators is a living voice, to impose […]

The department, assembly, or body of men that makes laws for a state or nation; a legislative body.

Lat. A person skilled or learned in the law; a lawyer or advocate. Feud. lib. 2, tit. 1.

In old English practice, this was the formal question propounded to the ordinary when a prisoner claimed the benefit of clergy ,

In Scotch law. The children’s share in the father’s movables.

Lawful birth; the condition of being born in wedlock; the opposite of illegitimacy or bastardy. Davenport v. Caldwell, 10 S. C. 337; Pratt v. Pratt, 5 Mo. App. 541.

v. To make lawful; to confer legitimacy ; to place a child born before marriage on the footing of those born in lawful wedlock. McICamie v. Baskerville, 86 Tenn. 459, […]

the name given to a child who is born of married parents or a child born out of wedlock who has acquired legitimacy .

Power belonging to the person in a position that is derived from a job, position, or status.

The making legitimate or lawful that which was not originally so; especially the act of legalizing the status of a bastard.

Lat. In the civil law . That portion of a parent’s estate of which he cannot disinherit his children without a legal cause . Miller v. Miller, 105 La. 257, […]

Lat. In Roman law. Legitimate heirs; the agnate relations of the estate-leaver; so called because the inheritance was given to them by a law of the Twelve Tables .

Lawful; legitimate . Legitimus lucres et filius est quem nuptice demonstrant, a lawful son and heir is he whom the marriage points out to be lawful. Bract, fol. 63.

Lat In Roman law. I bequeath. A common term in wills. Dig. 30, 36, 81, et seq.

In old records. A fine for criminal conversation with a woman.

A person skilled in law, (in legibus versatus;) one versed in the forms of law. Calvin.