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Webster 1913 Edition
Legislature
Leg′is-laˊture
(lĕj′ĭs-lāˊtū̍r; 135)
, Noun.
[Cf. F.
législature
.] The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body.
Without the concurrent consent of all three parts of the
legislature
, no law is, or can be, made. Sir M. Hale.
☞ The
legislature
of Great Britain consists of the Lords and Commons, with the king or queen, whose sanction is necessary to every bill before it becomes a law. The legislatures
of most of the United States consist of two houses or branches; but the sanction or consent of the governor is required to give their acts the force of law, or a concurrence of two thirds of the two houses after he has refused his sanction and assigned his objections. Webster 1828 Edition
Legislature
LEG'ISLATURE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
législature
législature
See also: legislature
French
Noun
législature f (plural législatures)
- legislature
- (duration) term of office, for a legislative body
- Le Président de l'Assemblée Nationale est élu pour la durée de la législature. (Article 32 of the Constitution of the French Republic, 4 October 1958)[1]
- The President of the National Assembly shall be elected for the life of a Parliament.
- Le Président de l'Assemblée Nationale est élu pour la durée de la législature. (Article 32 of the Constitution of the French Republic, 4 October 1958)[1]