besluit, noun

/bəˈslœɪt//bəˈsleɪt/
Origin:
Afrikaans.
historical, Law
A resolution, law, or ordinance of the Transvaal Republic. Cf. wet.
1899 A.E. Heyer Brief Hist. of Tvl Secret Service 15According to Volksraad besluit £10,000 annually are granted for Secret Service.
1912 H.H. Juta Reminisc. 103The Legislative body passed a law or ‘besluit’ that any free and independent burgher refusing to accept a Government appointment offered to him should be fined.
1919 M.M. Steyn Diary 325They..passed a resolution in the ‘Volksraad’ as follows: ‘No action of the High Court shall over-ride any action of our “besluits” (ordinances).’
1936 Cambridge Hist. of Brit. Empire VIII. 574The Second Volksraad..a legislature which could and did alter even old-fashioned laws by resolution (besluit) at a single sitting.
1977 T.R.H. Davenport S. Afr.: Mod. Hist. 66They insisted on a three-quarters majority for every law passed, and..three months between the first tabling of a measure and its enactment...This..led to the short-cut practice of making laws by besluit (resolution) of a simple Volksraad majority.
A resolution, law, or ordinance of the Transvaal Republic.
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