- authoritative laws
- Decree
- Local law
- Official decree
- Regulation
- Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision.
- A rule established by authority; a permanent rule of
action; a statute, law, regulation, rescript, or accepted usage; an
edict or decree; esp., a local law enacted by a municipal government;
as, a municipal ordinance.
- A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic
or local law or by-law.
- A local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation
made by a corporation for its own government.
- 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.