"[B]oth commentators and courts have often attached the prefix 'quasi' to descriptions of an agency’s rulemaking or adjudicative functions. . . . The terms 'quasi legislative' and 'quasi adjudicative' indicate that the agency uses legislative like or court like procedures but that it is not, constitutionally speaking, either a legislature or a court."
Quasi-legislative
Definition
A legislative-like act undertaken by an entity other than a legislature. For example, rulemaking undertaken by an administrative agency is a quasi-legislative act.
Illustrative caselaw
See, e.g. Humphrey's Ex'r v. United States, 295 U.S. 602 (1935).
See also
