legislation

noun

1. the act of making or enacting laws.
2. a law or a body of laws enacted.

noun

1. the act or process of making laws; enactment
2. the laws so made

n.1650s, from French législation, from Late Latin legislationem (nominative legislatio), properly two words, legis latio, “proposing (literally ‘bearing’) of a law;” see legislator.