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legislation

product of enrolling, enacting, or promulgating law by a legislature, parliament, or analogous governing body; publication type
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legislation

Summary

legislation ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (346 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • legislation is a type of statute[2].
  • legislation is a type of legal act[3].
  • legislation is a type of regulation[4].
  • legislation is part of statutory law[5].
  • legislation's Commons category is recorded as Legislation[6].
  • legislation comprises statutory provision[7].
  • legislation's has cause is recorded as legislative process[8].
  • legislation's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Legislation[9].
  • legislation's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[10].
  • legislation's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[11].
  • legislation's main Wikidata property is recorded as P3014[12].
  • legislation's main Wikidata property is recorded as P9681[13].
  • legislation's different from is recorded as statute[14].
  • legislation's different from is recorded as law[15].
  • legislation's different from is recorded as bill[16].
  • legislation's properties for this type is recorded as P31[17].
  • legislation's properties for this type is recorded as P467[18].
  • legislation's properties for this type is recorded as P577[19].
  • legislation's properties for this type is recorded as P17[20].
  • legislation's properties for this type is recorded as P1001[21].
  • legislation's studied by is recorded as Legisprudence[22].
  • legislation's exact match is recorded as https://citationstyles.org/ontology/type/legislation[23].
  • legislation's permanent duplicated item is recorded as legislation[24].
  • legislation's practiced by is recorded as legislator[25].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include statute[2], legal act[3], and regulation[4].

Use and Application

legislation comprises statutory provision[7]. legislation is part of statutory law[5].

Why It Matters

legislation ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (346 views/month).[1] legislation has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] legislation is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Related Entities

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Permanent duplicated item → legislation
    Different from → statute, law, bill
    Part of → —
    Subclass of → —
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 13854, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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