Legislative department
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
That department ofgovernment whose appropriate function is the making or enactment of laws, as distinguished from the judicial department, which interprets and applies the laws, and the executive department, which carries them into execution and effect.
See In re Davies, 168 N. Y. 89, 61 N. E. 118, 56 L. R. A. 855.