wet, noun
/vet/
- Forms:
- Also with initial capital.
- Origin:
- Afrikaans.
historical, Law
A law passed by the legislative assembly of any of the former Boer republics. Cf. besluit.
1936 Cambridge Hist. of Brit. Empire VIII. 574At the end of a long test case..Chief Justice Kotze..denied the power of the Volksraad to alter existing law by resolution or by any means other than the slow and cumbrous progress of act (wet).
1968 E.A. Walker Hist. of Sn Afr. 463The Volksraad had legislated both by wet (statute), a process with occupied at least three months, and by besluit (resolution), a method which entailed no delay whatever.
A law passed by the legislative assembly of any of the former Boer republics.
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