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Definition of Byrlaws
1. byrlaw [n] - See also: byrlaw
Lexicographical Neighbors of Byrlaws
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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