What is CLASS LEGISLATION? Definition of CLASS LEGISLATION in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
Legislation limited in operation to certain persons or classes of persons, natural or artificial, or to certain districts of territory or state, Vardaman v. McBee, 1C8 Miss. 251, 21 So.2d 661, 664. Legislation operating upon 'portion of particular class of persons or things. Shaw v. Fox, 246 Ky. 342, 55 S.W.2d 11.
The term is applied to enactments which divide the people or subjects of legislation into classes, with reference either to the grant of privileges or the imposition of burdens, upon an arbitrary, unjust, or invidious principle, or which make arbitrary discriminations between those persons or things coming within the same class. Leuthold v. Brandjord, 100 Mont. 96, 47 P.2d 41, 45; People v. Marcello, Mag.Ct.N.Y., 25 N.Y.S.2d 533, 537, 538, 539.
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