session law

noun

1

: any of the laws passed during a particular legislative session

2

session laws plural : a publication in bound-volume form of all enactments and resolutions of a legislature passed at a particular session, indexed, and numbered usually in chronological order

—distinguished from code

Word History

First Known Use

1902, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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