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 by-law
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 By-law n.
 1. A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own government.
    There was likewise a law to restrain the by-laws, or ordinances of corporations.   --Bacon.
    The law or institution; to which are added two by-laws, as a comment upon the general law.   --Addison.
 2. A law that is less important than a general law or constitutional provision, and subsidiary to it; a rule relating to a matter of detail; as, civic societies often adopt a constitution and by-laws for the government of their members. In this sense the word has probably been influenced by by, meaning secondary or aside.
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 bylaw
      n : a rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs
          [syn: bye law]