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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
legislation, is an instrument drawn or presented by a member toa legislative body for its approbation, so that it may become a law, or its rejection. After it has gone through both houses and received the.constitutional sanction of the chief magistrate, where such approbation is “requisite, it becomes a law: