to veto a law

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• veto — ve·to 1 / vē tō/ n pl ve·toes [Latin, I forbid, refuse assent to] 1: an authoritative prohibition 2 a: a power vested in a chief executive to prevent permanently or temporarily the enactment of measures passed by a legislature b: the exercise of… …   Law dictionary

• veto, line-item — n. The power to reject some portions of a law without rejecting the whole thing. See also pocket veto The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 …   Law dictionary

• law — / lȯ/ n [Old English lagu, of Scandinavian origin] 1: a rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority: as a: a command or provision enacted by a legislature see also statute 1 b:… …   Law dictionary

• veto — ve‧to [ˈviːtəʊ ǁ toʊ] verb [transitive] LAW to officially refuse to allow something to happen, especially something other people have agreed: • An attempt to use £35 million to strengthen the bank s capital was vetoed by bank regulators. veto… …   Financial and business terms

• Veto — Ve to, n.; pl. {Vetoes}. [L. veto I forbid.] [1913 Webster] 1. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction. [1913 Webster] This contemptuous veto of her husband s on any intimacy with her family. G. Eliot. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• veto message — Veto Ve to, n.; pl. {Vetoes}. [L. veto I forbid.] [1913 Webster] 1. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction. [1913 Webster] This contemptuous veto of her husband s on any intimacy with her family. G. Eliot. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• veto — [vē′tō] n. pl. vetoes [L, I forbid < vetare, to forbid] 1. a) an order prohibiting some proposed or intended act; prohibition, esp. by a person in authority b) the power to prevent action by such prohibition 2. the constitutional right or… …   English World dictionary

• veto — ► NOUN (pl. vetoes) 1) a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law making body. 2) any prohibition. ► VERB (vetoes, vetoed) ▪ exercise a veto against. ORIGIN from Latin, I forbid , used by Roman tribunes …   English terms dictionary

• Veto — For other uses of Veto , see Veto (disambiguation). A veto, Latin for I forbid , is the power of an officer of the state to unilaterally stop an official action, especially enactment of a piece of legislation. Veto: An emphatic prohibition of any …   Wikipedia

• veto — /viytow/ (Lat. I forbid.) The refusal of assent by the executive officer whose assent is necessary to perfect a law which has been passed by the legislative body, and the message which is usually sent to such body by the executive, stating such… …   Black's law dictionary

• pocket veto — pock·et veto n: a veto of legislation that occurs indirectly when an executive refrains from signing the legislation and the adjournment of the legislature prevents its automatic enactment (as upon expiration of ten days) Merriam Webster’s… …   Law dictionary