Say-so: alternatives and connections

the body of rules and regulations and orders and decisions created by administrative agencies of government

The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.

Deputies from the confederated states of ancient Greece to a congress or council. They considered both political and religious matters.

To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, decrees, edicts, decisions of co…

One who arrests.

To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boun…

A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.

A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.

Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff.

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

To have or to exercise direct authority; to govern; to sway; to influence; to give an order or orders.

A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of sever…

An officer of the peace having power as a conservator of the public peace, and bound to execute the warrants of judicial officers.

Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contempt…

A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.

A member of the Chamber of Deputies.

A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see…

An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel t…