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legislate
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To enact laws or pass resolutions by the lawmaking process, in contrast to law that is derived from principles espoused by courts in decisions.


legislate verb authorize, codify, constituere, create by law, decree, dictate, effect, enact, enact laws, establish, establish by law, exercise the function of legislation, institute, leges facere, make into law, make laws, make legal, order, originate, pass, pass laws, prescribe laws, put in force, rule, sanction, scribere, vote in
See also: approve, authorize, constitute, enact, establish, govern, legalize, mandamus, pass


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It is the knee-jerk reaction of choice whenever the government legislates against something that may be dangerous.
Rodgers, who through his disqualification is barred from owning horses as well as entering racecourses or training establishments, was the first man to be banned since the inception last September of Rule 247, which legislates against owners, trainers and stable staff laying their own horses to lose on betting exchanges.
 
 
 
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