There was frantic opposition to all of these revolutionary enactments and many prophets arose crying woe; but the acts finally passed and England still lives.
Justinian changed these enactments to a pronounced degree.
To the enactments of Justinian, who caused the whole body of the Roman law to be collected, I intend to give special attention.
Some enactments which may well strike us as peculiar deserve notice.
General Schenk drew up the enactments governing the science of the pastime, at the request of Lady Waldegrave.
Perhaps in the whole history of legislation no more delightful instance of this has been afforded than in some of the enactments of the Administration.
Formerly, as a policy of good government, the past governors assigned a place where the bread ovens were gathered together, and prohibited the baking of bread in any other place.
The Dutch fortified themselves on the same island first, and in a better place than we; and it was as easy to drive them from it [then] as it is now difficult.
Many of the enactments of this code were transmitted to later ordinances.
His enactments became, through subsequent re-enactments, the basis of the laws not only of Wessex, but also of all England.
Yes; Jehovah can dig a grave or make a coat; and, moreover, the grace that shines in these marvelous acts is only enhanced by being looked at in connection with the solemn enactments of the throne of government.
He could feed in secret on the precious fruits of grace, while he recognized in public the solemn and unavoidable enactments of government.
We have endeavored to give you some useful hints in reference to the beautiful and the fitting in costume, based on a higher law than the enactments of the fashion-makers.
The West has never accepted this opinion and has only to a limited extent admitted the authority of its canons, though some have been current in the West because, like much conciliar action, they were re-enactments of older canons.
Some exceptions derive their force from statutes or enactments equivalent to statutes, others from the jurisdiction of the praetor; 8 and some are said to be perpetual or peremptory, others to be temporary or dilatory.
Civil law takes its name from the state wherein it binds; for instance, the civil law of Athens, it being quite correct to speak thus of the enactments of Solon or Draco.
The written law consists of statutes, plebiscites, senatusconsults, enactments of the Emperors, edicts of the magistrates, and answers of those learned in the law.
But we know that Parliamentary enactments of a previous date were insufficient to prevent the importation of copies of Tyndale's translation of the New Testament, so early as 1526, as well as in subsequent years: See the Rev.
By this series of enactments the administrative methods and machinery of the kingdom were reduced to substantially the character which they to-day possess.
Save in occasional parliamentary enactmentsand judicial decisions, the constitutional changes which were wrought were rarely given documentary expression.
The complicated conditions under which citizenship may be obtained, exercised, and forfeited are prescribed in legislative enactments of various dates.
He alluded to the recent messages of the Governors of South Carolina and Mississippi in which the Border States were referred to in no over-friendly terms, and with suggestions of legislative enactments hostile to their interests.
By secession she would lose the strong arm of the National Government to defend her against assaults, whether by lawless bands or the legislative enactments of hostile states.
Such were the attitude of the Republican Party, the avowals and pledges of President Lincoln and the enactments of Congress, with respect to slavery, at the time of Virginia's secession.
Senate and House of Representatives earnestly request that all enactments having such tendency be forthwith repealed as required by a just sense of constitutional obligations and by a due regard for the peace of the Republic.
We shall accept as the true expression of the dominant element the returns from the ballot box, the enactments of her legislative and constitutional assemblies, and the deliverances of her great sons.
A few very brief enactments can be framed which will meet every public necessity, and thro' a commission a really good charter may be framed.
But a return to specie payments cannot be effected by simply passing resolutions or empty and vague enactments of Congress.
These nations are bound to know the United States Laws; but can they be expected to know the enactments of particular States and cities?
The limits of this work compel me to pass by many enactments in our slaveholding States, which would throw still more light on this dark subject.
Every criminal in transgressing the law obeys a precept of his own making which is in opposition to the enactments of the state.
But the Will of the State does not manifest itself solely by the enactments of positive legislation.
The Scots Parliament and Privy Council assisted the Churchmen to extirpate the new faith in a series of enactments which themselves bear witness to its spread.
The terms of some of these enactments show that the new faith had been making converts among the nobility; and they also indicate the chief points of attack on the Roman Church in Scotland.
The cooks of Paris had already been made the subject of many enactments when Louis XIV.
According to one of the last legislative enactments of the Second Empire, persons brought before a police-court remained provisionally at liberty except under grave circumstances.
Who is to tell which enactments may be safely disobeyed, and which carry with them the terrible penalty?
The new enactments also forbade any Association to license a candidate to preach outside its own bounds or to settle any disputes beyond its own territory.
Against truth and right, legislative enactments were to his mind mere cobwebs--the pompous emptiness of human pride--the pitiful outbreathings of human nothingness.
The former of these enactments was that which in opposition to the English law of primogeniture declared that the estate of a parent should descend in equal proportion to all members of the family.
The two enactmentsespecially obnoxious to the English were Gahail Cinne, and Eiric.
In the descriptions given of their governmental proceedings, it is stated that the whole course of law is considered apart from the jurisdiction of the sovereign, who has no power to either change or annul the enactments of the people.
Thus also it was allowed to the judges to impose punishments according to their own pleasure; the laws of Sparta contained no special enactments on this point, which were first added by Zaleucus to his code.
Enactments come into use when conscious purposes are formed, and it is believed that specific devices can be framed by which to realize such purposes in the society.
Comte and the social philosophers in France after the Revolution set out with the deliberate purpose of superseding legislative enactments by laws of human nature, laws which were to be positive and "scientific.
The mores of different societies, or of different ages, are characterized by greater of less readiness and confidence in regard to the use of positiveenactments for the realization of societal purposes.
Within 10 days after their reception, the President shall return all bills, resolutions and enactments which may be sent to him by the House for his approval, with his sanction thereof, or with his objections thereto.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enactments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
