bye-law

In his office, while my colleague James and I gazed nervously round the room, he sat grimacing, shook his head, grunted, all as slowly as its possible to without going backwards, and I wondered whether he was about to tell us the script was so bad he could invoke an ancient bye-law of the university and have us executed.

What's Going On Mark Steel 2009

Lib Dem councillor Paul Twigger said: The Scrutiny Group is recommending that a bye-law be enforced to stop the circulation of free toys associated with junk food promotions.

Archive 2008-02-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

I'm not really down with TV but there is some sort of LJ bye-law that says you must love and post about at least a couple of series.

What The Dilly-O? the_red_shoes 2005

The majority of a corporation can enact a bye-law with proper penalties, which will limit the competition more effectually and more durably than any voluntary combination whatever.

X. Book I. Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock 1909

It required a particular act of parliament to rescind this bye-law.

X. Book I. Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock 1909

In Sheffield no master cutler can have more than one apprentice at a time, by a bye-law of the corporation.

X. Book I. Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock 1909

Both these regulations, though they have been confirmed by a public law of the kingdom, are evidently dictated by the same corporation spirit which enacted the bye-law of Sheffield.

X. Book I. Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock 1909

The silk weavers in London had scarce been incorporated a year when they enacted a bye-law restraining any master from having more than two apprentices at a time.

X. Book I. Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock 1909

By the 5th of Elizabeth, commonly called the Statute of Apprenticeship, it was enacted, that no person should for the future exercise any trade, craft, or mastery at that time exercised in England, unless he had previously served to it an apprenticeship of seven years at least; and what before had been the bye-law of many particular corporations became in England the general and public law of all trades carried on in market towns.

X. Book I. Of Wages and Profit in the Different Employments of Labour and Stock 1909

In Kansas City, for instance, the municipality, finding itself restrained by the courts from preventing the performance, fell back on a local bye-law against indecency to evade the Constitution of the United States.

How He Lied to Her Husband George Bernard Shaw 1903