regulation vs rescript

regulation

noun
  • A numbered provision within such kind of law. 

  • The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated. 

  • A type of law made by the executive branch of government, usually by virtue of a statute made by the legislative branch giving the executive the authority to do so. 

  • Mechanism controlling DNA transcription. 

  • A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization. 

  • A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law. 

  • Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis. 

adj
  • In conformity with applicable rules and regulations. 

rescript

noun
  • A clarification of a point of law by a monarch issued upon formal consultation by a lower magistrate. 

  • A rewriting, a document copied or written again. 

  • A duplicate copy of a legal document. 

  • An ad hoc reply of a pope to some specific question of canon law or morality, without precedential force, sometimes (improper) inclusive of decretals which serve as precedents in canon law. 

verb
  • To script again or anew. 

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