by-law
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
by-law (also bye-law)
▶noun
- 1 Brit. a regulation made by a local authority or corporation.
- 2 a rule made by a company or society to control the actions of its members.
– origin ME: prob. from obs. byrlaw ‘local law or custom’, from ON býjar, genitive sing. of býr ‘town’, but assoc. with by.
'by-law' also found in these Oxford entries:
compulsory
- constitute
- contract
- control
- crime
- hypothecate
- illegal
- illicit
- lawful
- legal
- legality
- liable
- lighting-up time
- mandatory
- marriage
- militia
- minimum wage
- nonfeasance
- ordinance
- penal
- perpetuity
- portion
- privity
- prohibit
- prohibition
- proscribe
- require
