legislatorialadj.

1703 T. Dorrington tr. S. von Pufendorf Divine Feudal Law lxxi. 251 The Legislatorial Will [L. voluntatem Legislatoriam] of God does coincidate with the Will of the Sign, or the signified Will which differs from the Intrinsick Pleasure.

1774–5 J. Bentham Commonplace Bk. in Wks. (1843) X. iv. 76/2 A System of Rules for the Conversion of Long Sentences into Short Ones, for the Legislatorial Style.

1833 Fraser's Mag. 8 246 He would have done better to stick to his legislatorial duties.

1863 C. Reade Hard Cash III. vii. 170 Young gentleman, the English Statutes of Lunacy are famous monuments of legislatorial incapacity.

1974 Brit. Jrnl. Law & Society 1 196 These rules masquerade under the respectability of..judicial non-interference with legislatorial policy.

2007 Telegraph-Jrnl. (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 21 Apr. a9 Legislatorial experience does not necessarily qualify one for the highest office of the executive branch of the U.S. government.

1820 Ann. Reg. 1819 (Otridge ed.) Gen. Hist. 104/2 At a public meeting holden on July 12..the managers..proposed that the same Sir Charles [Wolseley] should be sent up to parliament as ‘legislatorial attorney and representative of Birmingham’.

1841 T. De Quincey Homer & Homeridae in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 625/1 Solon, the legislatorial founder of Athens.

1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 357 One may imagine a community governed by a dependent legislatorial body or person.

1959 Times 5 May 5 Trade has substantially helped the legislatorial bodies of Nigeria in their efforts to raise the standard of living in the country.

2010 P. Griffiths JCT 2005 ii. ix. 164 A set of adjudication rules prepared by the Parliamentary legislatorial body.

1827 Westm. Rev. 7 30 The judges legislatorially refuse to acknowledge certain rights of the landlords.

1931 South Western Reporter 2nd Ser. 41 173/2 They are not incapable of the construction then judicially given them and legislatorially adopted.

1975 T. A. Smith Compar. Policy Process ii. 92 It will be remembered that the emotive symbolic policy type is legislatorially settled; i.e., an attribute of this type of policy seems to be extreme individualism within the legislature.