legislation
n. 1. The whole or any part of a country’s written law. In the UK the term is normally confined to Acts of Parliament, but in its broadest sense it also includes law made under powers conferred by Act of Parliament (see delegated legislation), law made by virtue of the royal prerogative, and Measures (see Church of England). 2. The process of making written law.

• proprietor
• proprietorship register
• prorogation
• proscribed organization
• prosecution
• prosecutor
• prospectus
• prostitution
• protected characteristics
• protected child
• protected goods
• protected occupancy
• protected person
• protected shorthold tenancy
• protected site
• protected state
• protected tenancy
• protection and indemnity association
• protective award
• protective trust
• protector
• protest
• protocol
• provable debt
• proving a will