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Enacting clause

Enact \En*act"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enacted; p. pr. & vb. n. Enacting.]

  1. To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law.

  2. To act; to perform; to do; to effect. [Obs.]

    The king enacts more wonders than a man.
    --Shak.

  3. To act the part of; to represent; to play.

    I did enact Julius Caesar.
    --Shak.

    Enacting clause, that clause of a bill which formally expresses the legislative sanction.

Usage examples of "enacting clause".

The same bitter war over the sum to be paid was fought over again, and now that the ayes and nays could be called and placed on record, every man was compelled to vote by name on the three millions, and indeed on every paragraph of the bill from the enacting clause straight through.