Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Enactment

Enactment , noun

1.
The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.
2.
That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment.