Definition of Byrlaws

1. Noun. (plural of byrlaw) ¹

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Definition of Byrlaws

1. byrlaw [n] - See also: byrlaw

Lexicographical Neighbors of Byrlaws

byplace
byplaces
byplay
byplays
byproduct
byproducts
byr1 protein kinase
byre
byreman
byremen
byres
byrl
byrlady
byrlakin
byrlaw
byrlaws (current term)
byrled
byrling
byrls
byrnie
byrnies
byroad
byroads
byroom
byrooms
bys
bysen
byshop
bysitter
byspeech

Literary usage of Byrlaws

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature by William Johnson (1867)
"... a perpetual succession, a capacity to sue and be sued, a right to purchase and hold land, to have a common seal, and to make byrlaws, &c., (Kyd on Corp. ..."

2. A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield by Sidney Oldall Addy (1888)
"It was the Danes who established the laws of Hallamshire, for the townships or divisions called byrlaws still exist in Bradfield, Ecclesfield, and Sheffield ..."

3. The Pillars of Priestcraft and Orthodoxy Shaken by Richard Baron, Thomas Gordon (1768)
"I would fain know whether- he doth not allow, that any little hody politic • Kath a power to make byrlaws for their ..."

4. Origines Patriciae, Or, A Deduction of European Titles of Nobility and by Robert Thomas Hampson (1846)
"... or byrlaws, of which Dr. Jamieson says that they are made and determined by consent of the neighbours, elected by common consent in the courts called ..."

5. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1816)
"He was under no hardship, if called upon, to subject himself to those byrlaws which should be passed, nor would lie be exposed to any hardship if his case ..."

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