Effect
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The result which an instrument between parties will produce in their relative rights, or which a statute will produce upon the existing law, as discovered from the language used, the forms employed, or other materials for construing it. The phrases “take effect,” “be in force, ” “go into operation,” etc., have been used inierchangeably aver since the organization of the state.
4 Ind. 342.