1) Act 2) Acts 3) Criminalisation 4) Criminalization 5) Decriminalisation 6) Decriminalization 7) Direction 8) Enactment 9) Law 10) Lawmaking 11) Legislating 12) Rule 13) Ruling 1) Civil law 2) Law making 3) Laws made 4) Process at work in Congress 5) Statute law 
Legislation (or `statutory law`) is law which has been promulgated (or `enacted`) by a legislature or other governing body or the process of making it. (Another source of law is judge-made law or case law.) Before an item of legislation becomes law it may be known as a bill, and may be broadly referred to as `legislation` while it remains un...
• (n.) The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted.
[Noun] The process of making laws. A group of laws.
The enactment of laws and ordinances and their regulation by official organs of a nation, state, or other legislative organization. It refers also to health-related laws and regulations in general or for which there is no specific heading. ... (12 Dec 1998) ... 
A law or laws made by a government.
Leg`is·la'tion (-lā'shŭn) noun [ Confer French législation , Latin legis latio . See Legislator .] The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted. « Pythagoras joined legislation to his philosophy.» Lyttelton....
An act of parliament or piece of delegated legislation.
[n] - law enacted by a legislative body 2. [n] - the act of making or enacting laws
legislation 1. The action of making or giving laws; the enactment of laws, lawgiving; an instance of this. 2. The enactments of a legislator or legislature; the whole body of enacted laws.
statute law noun law enacted by a legislative body
Law made by the UK Parliament, the Scottish Parliament, and the Welsh Assembly.
the act of making or enacting laws[Academic words] the act of making or enacting laws the act of making or enacting laws