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EFFECT

The result which an instrument between parties will produce In their relative rights, or which a statute will produce .upon the existing law, as discovered from the language used, the forms employed, or other materials for construing it.
The phrases “take effect,” “be in force,” “go into operation,” etc, have been used interchangeably ever since the organization of the state. Maize v. State, 4 Ind. 342.

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