enrolled bill rule

enrolled bill rule
The rule that an enrolled bill imports absolute verity, so that the courts will not look beyond it to ascertain whether it has been regularly enacted or whether it expresses the terms of the statute as enacted. 50 Am J1st Stat § 149.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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