reenactment rule. In statutory construction, the principle that when reenacting a law, the legislature implicitly adopts well-settled judicial or administrative interpretations of the law. [Cases: Statutes 223. 5. C.J.S. Statutes §§ 356–357.]
Hist. The legal termination of a particular marriage, enacted by the legislature rather than by a court. • In the 18th century, Colonial American legislatures granted these special statutes. In 1816, the House of Burgesses of Virginia granted a divorce to Rachel Robards Jackson, the wife of then President Andrew Jackson, from a former spouse.
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