<entry id="2352229" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
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<ent_seq>1517480</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>法律</keb>
<ke_pri>ichi1</ke_pri>
<ke_pri>news1</ke_pri>
<ke_pri>nf02</ke_pri>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>ほうりつ</reb>
<re_pri>ichi1</re_pri>
<re_pri>news1</re_pri>
<re_pri>nf02</re_pri>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>law</gloss>
<gloss>legislation</gloss>
<gloss>act</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2021-06-28 01:59:01" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>dine</upd_name>
<upd_refs>法律は	502996
法律も	69956
法律が	451067
法律を	589869
法律の	1704277 // not particularly high</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -18 +17,0 @@
-&lt;pos&gt;&amp;adj-no;&lt;/pos&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2021-06-28 11:28:03" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2025-11-19 02:05:58" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Brian Krznarich</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>It was suggested to me that this was a better term for "legislation" ("laws") than 立法.  Reverso has 10,000+ glosses as "act" and about 3,000 as "legislation".

You could argue that here "legislation" is a plural from of "law", but we have "legislation" on a lot of other terms.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>Top glosses for 法律 are "law", "act", and "legislation".
https://context.reverso.net/translation/japanese-english/%E6%B3%95%E5%BE%8B

Top gloss for "legislation" is 法律
https://context.reverso.net/translation/english-japanese/legislation

https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=%e6%b3%95%e5%be%8b
Act of Congress〈米〉
canon
enactment（制定された）
law（特定の領域の）
law（成立した）
legislation（政府によって提案・制定された）〔複数の法律もa legislationと表現する。◆【略】leg.</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -18,0 +19,2 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;act&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;legislation&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2025-11-19 03:33:53" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Tweaking</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -18,0 +19 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;legislation&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -20 +20,0 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;legislation&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>