Legislation vs Adjudication - What's the difference?
legislation | adjudication |
The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted.
Law which has been enacted by legislature or other governing body
The act of adjudicating, of reaching a judgement.
A judgment or sentence.
* Burke
* 2007 , Houston Chronicle (6/17/2007)
(legal) The decision upon the question of whether the debtor is a bankrupt.
(emergency response) The process of identifying the type of material or device that set off an alarm and assessing the potential threat with corresponding implications for the need to take further action.
(legal, Scotland) A process by which land is attached as security or in satisfaction of a debt.
As nouns the difference between legislation and adjudication
is that legislation is the act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted while adjudication is the act of adjudicating, of reaching a judgement.legislation
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(en-noun)adjudication
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(wikipedia adjudication)Noun
(en noun)- An adjudication in favour of natural rights.
- [Mr. C.] says he confessed to avoid a lengthier sentence after his original attorney told him that the prosecutor claimed DNA evidence conclusively identified him as the attacker. [Mr. C.] had an earlier deferred adjudication for indecency with a minor.
- (Abbott)
