enabling statute
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 76 U.S. 687 - The Protector · 1869Most cited · 15 citing opinions
This statute is an enabling and not a restraining one; it was not intended to take away any right of appeal, but to continue the right in cases where it had been lost.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “enabling statute” — 15 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.