rights. A formal and emphatic leg-islative assertion and declaration of popular rights and liberties usually promulgated upon a change of government; particularly the stat-ute 1 W. A M. St. 2, c. 2. Also the summary of the rights and liberties of the people, or of the principles of constitutional law deemed es-sential and fundamental, contained in many of the American state constitutions.—Eason v. State, 11 Ark. 491; Atchison St. R. Co. v. Mis-souri Pac. R. Co.. 31 Kan. 661, 3 Pac. 284; orr v. Quimby, 54 N. H. 613
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
