Enactment vs Writ - What's the difference?
enactment | writ | Related terms |
The act of enacting, or the state of being enacted.
:The actors' powerful enactment of the play was breathtaking.
:The enactment of this law will be a great step backward for our country.
(legal) A piece of legislation that has been properly authorized by a legislative body.
:The enactments passed by the council that year included sweeping reforms.
(legal) A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
authority, power to enforce compliance
* '>citation
(obsolete) that which is written; writing
* Spenser
* Knolles
(dated, nonstandard)
* (Omar Khayyam) (in translation)
In lang=en terms the difference between enactment and writ
is that enactment is a piece of legislation that has been properly authorized by a legislative body while writ is a written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.As nouns the difference between enactment and writ
is that enactment is the act of enacting, or the state of being enacted while writ is a written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.As a verb writ is
past participle of lang=en.enactment
English
Noun
(wikipedia enactment) (en noun)writ
English
(wikipedia writ)Noun
(en noun)- We can't let them take advantage of the fact that there are so many areas of the world where no one's writ runs.
- Then to his hands that writ he did betake, / Which he disclosing read, thus as the paper spake.
- Babylon, so much spoken of in Holy Writ
Derived terms
* drop the writ * Holy Writ * writ of habeas corpusReferences
* Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (Webster)Verb
(head)- (Dryden)
- The moving finger writes, and having writ , not all your piety or wit can lure it back to cancel half a line
