Effect
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
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 interchangeably ever since the organization of the state.
Maize v. State, 4 Ind. 342.