Origin & History of âmeatâ Etymologically, meat is a âportion of food measured outâ. The wordâs ultimate source is Indo-European *mat-, *met-âmeasureâ, which also lies behind English measure. this produced a prehistoric Germanic *matiz, which by the time it passed into Old English as mete had broadened out in meaning from âportion of foodâ to simply âfoodâ.
Amendatory Veto Law and Legal Definition. Amendatory veto means the power exercised by a governor to veto a legislative decision. Amendatory veto is granted to the governors in seven states in the U.S. Legal Definition list.
the right of any member of the Sejm of the Rzeczpospolita (the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania) to annul by his protest the rulings of the Sejm; the requirement for the adoption of the decision was unanimity. The liberum veto was applied for the first time in 1652. In 1764, the Sejm voted to exclude economic questions from the liberum veto. The liberum veto was repealed altogether by the constitution of May 3, 1791. KonopczyÅski W. Liberum veto. Krakow, 1918.