Under the doctrine, once a bill passes a legislative body and is signed into law, the courts assume that all rules of procedure in the enactment process were properly followed.
The enrolled bill rule was restated by Lord Campbell in Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway Co v Wauchope.
[4] In that case it was complained that the passage of a private bill was defective because proper notice had not been given.
In the United States, the rule was adopted by the Supreme Court in Field v. Clark, 143 U.S. 649 (1892).
[5] At the time of the decision in Field, nine states had adopted the doctrine, and thirteen had rejected it.