Definition of "legislative act" []

• An act passed by a legislative body (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The State University of Missouri was established by legislative act approved on 11 February, 1839, and the university was located at Columbia,"
• "I, 228), the necessity of confession "became a new article of faith" and the canon, omnis utriusque sexus, "is perhaps the most important legislative act in the history of the Church" (ibid.,"