Lĕg'is-lā'tion, n.

n. [Fr. législation, Sp. legislacion, It. legislazione, Lat. legis latio, from lex, legis, law, and latio, a bringing, proposing, from ferre, latum. See supra.] The act of legislating, or enacting laws.

Pythagoras joined legislation to his philosophy. Littelton.