For example, most areas of law in most Anglo-American jurisdictions include " statutory law " enacted by a legislature, " regulatory law " promulgated by executive branch agencies pursuant to delegation of rule-making authority from the legislature, and common law or " case law ", i. e., decisions issued by courts ( or quasi-judicial tribunals within agencies ).

He and the Republican-controlled legislature also enacted " reforms " of the court system that resulted in an increase in the number of judicial appointments.

The progressive legislature enacted the 1905 laws on laïcité, which created a complete separation of church and state and stripped churches of most of their property rights.

California's legislature enacted AB 826, the Perchlorate Contamination Prevention Act of 2003, requiring California's Department of Toxic Substance Control ( DTSC ) to adopt regulations specifying best management practices for perchlorate and perchlorate-containing substances.

Then in June 1853 the legislature enacted a head tax on cattle in the Territory.

Legislation ( or " statutory law ") is law which has been promulgated ( or " enacted ") by a legislature or other governing body, or the process of making it.

By December 1864, the Lincoln plan of Reconstruction had been enacted in Louisiana and the legislature sent two Senators and five Representatives to take their seats in Washington.

California's legislature enacted AB 826, the Perchlorate Contamination Prevention Act of 2003, requiring California's Department of Toxic Substance Control ( DTSC ) to adopt regulations specifying best management practices for perchlorate and perchlorate-containing substances.

In 1986, the Australia Act was enacted, thereafter eliminating the remaining, mainly theoretical, ties between the legislature and judiciary of the United Kingdom and the Australian states.

An Act of Congress is a statute enacted by government with a legislature named " Congress ," such as the United States Congress or the Congress of the Philippines.

On October 27, 1992, the municipality of Ponce became the first in Puerto Rico to obtain its autonomy under a new law ( The Autonomous Municipalities Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ) enacted by the Puerto Rican legislature.

In 1988, the Delaware legislature enacted a law which required a would-be acquirer to capture 85 percent of a Delaware chartered corporation's stock in a single transaction or wait three years before proceeding.

The bill he put before the Indiana legislature was never enacted.

Under the indirect initiative, a measure is first referred to the legislature, and then put to a popular vote only if not enacted by the legislature.

It became a degree-granting institution upon receipt of a University Charter on March 9, 1934, at which time the provincial legislature of New Brunswick enacted the following:

The legislature changed the field from buff to blue by a law enacted on April 2, 1901.

The composition of the royal family may be regulated by statute enacted by the legislature ( e. g. Spain, the Netherlands, and Japan since 1947 ), the Sovereign's prerogative and common law tradition ( e. g. the United Kingdom ), or a private house law ( e. g., Liechtenstein, the former ruling houses of Bavaria, Prussia, Hanover, etc .).

On May 6, 2009, Maine's legislature and governor enacted a law to legalize same-sex marriage, but on November 3, 2009, that law was repealed by voters.

During his second term, narrowly won in 1896, the legislature raised taxes on several private industries and enacted child-labor laws.

As advisors to the sovereign, the Cabinet has significant power in the Canadian system and, as the governing party usually holds a majority of seats in the legislature, almost all bills proposed by the Cabinet are enacted.

" In February, 1918, the Montana legislature met in extraordinary session and enacted a similar statute.

It also elected John Miller Baer to the United States House of Representatives After the 1918 elections, in which the NPL won control of both houses of the legislature, a significant portion of the League's platform was enacted.

He sought election to another term, but the Democrats in the Missouri legislature were split between him and Benton, while the Whig minority put forward their own man.

* 1855 – Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas – " Border Ruffians " from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.

* October 28 – American Civil War: The Missouri legislature takes up a bill for Missouri's secession from the Union.

In 1826, the Missouri legislature first met here and in 1839 the settlement was incorporated as a city.

The Missouri state legislature defined the boundaries of the county from Chariton County during the 1842 – 1843 legislative session, and first named it Highland County.

The second county formed in Missouri ’ s Southeast Lowland Region, Scott County was created by the Missouri state legislature on December 28, 1821.

The first mayor of Salem was appointed or elected just after the Missouri state legislature passed the laws relating to village government in 1860.

When the Missouri legislature created Carter County on March 10, 1859, it named the county after Zimri A. Carter.

William Lawson was the first person elected to the Missouri legislature from Carter County in 1864 and served until 1870, at which time he was succeeded by F. M.

* Jerry Nolte, artist and representative to the Missouri state legislature

Stotts held a command in the US Army during the Civil War, distinguished himself while in charge of the 76th Enrolled Missouri Militia, Co. D, the 7th E Missouri Militia, Co. C, and the 15th Missouri Cavalry, Company C. He later represented Lawrence County in the Missouri state legislature.

Cuba was designated as the Route 66 Mural City by the Missouri legislature in recognition of Viva Cuba's Outdoor Mural Project.

Missouri became a state on August 10, 1821, and in 1833 the legislature designated most of the southern portion a single county.

The legislative branch consists of the state legislature, which is the Missouri General Assembly.

Missouri State University has a state-wide mission in Public Affairs granted by the state legislature in 1995.

Missouri, a Union state where slavery was legal, became a battleground when the pro-secession governor, against the vote of the legislature, led troops to the federal arsenal at St. Louis ; he was aided by Confederate forces from Arkansas and Louisiana.

In 1851, Benton was denied a sixth term by the Missouri legislature ; the polarization of the slavery issue made it impossible for a moderate and unionist to hold that state's senatorial seat.

For the state, William Hogsett conceded that Gaines was an excellent and qualified student with a right to a legal education, as long as it was somewhere other than the law school since it was public policy of the state, codified in the constitution and laws enacted by its legislature elected by the people, that African American students not be allowed to attend Missouri law school.

The Missouri legislature hastily passed a bill appropriating $ 275, 000 ($ in modern dollars ) to convert an old beauty school in St. Louis into the new Lincoln University School of Law, in the hope that would satisfy the court.

After the secession of Southern states began, the newly elected governor of Missouri called upon the legislature to authorize a state constitutional convention on secession.