| 单词 | hodge-podge act |
| 释义 | > as lemmashodge-podge act hodge-podge act n. a legislative act embracing a number of incongruous matters: see also sense 3b. ΘΚΠ society > law > [noun] > a legislative enactment > embracing incongruous matters hodge-podge act1766 hodge-podge1793 1766 D. Barrington Observ. Statutes 271 Thrown together in that very strange confusion, which hath now obtained the name of a hodge podge act. 1796 Rep. Ho. Com. (1803) XIV. 35 (note) Hodge Podge Acts, these have been discontinued of late years, but the statute book abounds with them. 1861 Macmillan's Mag. May 31 The 23 Geo. III. c. 26 is quoted by the commissioners as a specimen of what is familiar to lawyers as a Hodge-Podge Act. < as lemmas |
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