long title
(law, Commonwealth, US, Philippines) The formal, official title of an act (or other piece of legislation); such titles are rarely (if ever) used in practice, and in some cases consist of hundreds of w
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(law, Commonwealth, US, Philippines) The formal, official title of an act (or other piece of legislation); such titles are rarely (if ever) used in practice, and in some cases consist of hundreds of words.
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