Legislator
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
One who makes lawis; a member of the legislature (g, v.).
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
One who makes laws. of legislators is a living voice, to impose laws on things, and net on words. 10 Coke, 101.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
To make laws. Legislator: one authorized to make laws, or, sometimes, a member of the law-making body. Legislature: the body of persons in.the state clothed with authority to enact laws. Legislative power. That one of the three great departments into which the powers of government are distributed, — legislative, executive, and judicial, — which is concerned with enacting or establishing, and incidentally with repealing, laws. Legit vel nou? Does he read or not? The form of the question asked of the ordinary, when, in old English practice, a prisoner claiming benefit of clergy had the book presented to him to read. If the ordinary found the prisoner entitled to the privilege, the formal answer was, legit ut clericus, — he reads as a clerk, — and thereupon the clerk's privilege was extended to him. See Benefit or Clergy. LEGITIM; LEGITIME. Terms of the Scotch and civil laws, designating the child's share of his father's property