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enactment
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enactment noun act, bill, charter, codification, dictate, edict, establishment, fiat, law, legislation, lex, measure, ordinance, plebiscitum, regulation, rule, ruling, statute, statutory law
Foreign phrases: Leges suum ligent latorem.Laws should bind their own proposer. Jus constitui oportet in his quae ut plurimum accidunt non quae ex inopi nato. Laws ought to be made with a view to those cases which occur most frequently, and not to those which are of rare or acciiental occurrence. Leges figendi et refigendi consuetudo est periculosissima. The practice of making and remaking the laws is a most dangerous one. Quod populus postremum jussit, id jus ratum esto. What the people have last enacted, let that be the settled law.
See also: act, code, codification, commission, constitution, dictate, direction, directive, edict, fiat, law, mandate, measure, order, ordinance, pandect, performance, prescription, regulation, rubric, rule, statute, symbol, transaction
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Summary: Crude oil prices end the year under the threshold of USD40, on the eve of the coming into force of the last decision taken by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
Crude oil below USD40 on eve of OPEC agreement's effective date by UMCI News (Potomac Falls, VA)
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