In British law and in some related legal systems, an enactment is spent if it is "exhausted in operation by the accomplishment of the purposes for which it was enacted".[1][2]
- ^ Federation of Nigeria Law Reports. Volume 2. Page 291. Evans Brothers (Nigeria Publishers) Limited. 1986.
- ^ See also the explanatory memorandum to the Bill for the Statute Law Revision Act 1867 at page 4 of the Bill, printed in Bills, Public: 1867, Session 5 February - 21 August 1867, volume 6