bylaw

See also: by-law

English edit

From Middle English bylawe, bilawe, partly from Old English bīlage (“bylaw”) and partly from a variant of Middle English byrelawe, birlawe, from Old Norse býjar (“town's; settlement's”) + lǫg (“laws; jurisdiction”). Byrlaw is attested earlier in English but is unattested in Old Norse and the cognates in Scandinavian languages follow the development of bylaw: Danish bylov (“municipal law”), Swedish bylag and byalag.^[1]

bylaw (plural bylaws)

A local custom or law of a settlement or district.
A rule made by a local authority to regulate its own affairs.
A law or rule governing the internal affairs of an organization (e.g., corporation or business).

local custom or law

rule made by a local authority

law or rule governing the internal affairs of an organization

Catalan: estatut (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 附例 (fu⁶ lai⁶)

Mandarin: 規章／规章 (zh) (guīzhāng), 公司章程 (gōngsī guīzhāng), 附例 (zh) (fùlì)
Czech: stanova f
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: huishoudelijk reglement n
Esperanto: statuto
Finnish: säännöt (fi) pl
French: arrêté (fr) f, statuts (fr) m pl
German: Satzung (de) f, Statut (de) n
Greek: εσωτερικός κανονισμός m (esoterikós kanonismós)
Hungarian: testületi/társasági/szervezeti szabályzat/alapszabály/rendelet
Persian: آیین‌نامه (âyin-nâme)
Polish: przepis wewnętrzny m, statut (pl) m
Portuguese: estatuto (pt)
Russian: уста́в (ru) m (ustáv)
Spanish: estatuto (es) m
Swedish: stadga (sv) c
Turkish: tüzük (tr)
Welsh: is-ddeddf f

^ Oxford English Dictionary, "by-law | bye-law, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1888.