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Legislative department

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Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

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.

Defined under Legislative in Black's Law Dictionary.