Pocket Veto - Law Dictionary Search Results
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pocket veto : 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) ...
veto
veto 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 such authority see also pocket veto compare legislative veto vt ve·toed ve·to·ing : to refuse to admit or approve ;specif : to refuse assent to (a legislative bill) so as to prevent enactment or cause reconsideration see also override ...
Pocket veto
The retention by the President of the United States of a bill unsigned so that it does not become a law in virtue of the following constitutional provision Const Art I sec 7 cl 2 ldquoIf any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days Sundays excepted after it shall have been presented to him the same shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return in which case it shall not be a lawrdquo Also an analogous retention of a bill by a State governor...
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