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. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (1909)

It required a particular act of parliament to rescind this bye-law. ❋ Unknown (1909)

In Sheffield no master cutler can have more than one apprentice at a time, by a bye-law of the corporation. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

They summoned the actress who impersonated Mrs Warren to the police court, and offered her and her colleagues the alternative of leaving the city or being prosecuted under this bye-law. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

A man, for instance, goes to prison for contravening some municipal bye-law; he comes out of it the friend and associate of habitual criminals; and the ultimate result of the bye-law is to transform a comparatively harmless member of society into a dangerous thief or house-breaker. ❋ William Douglas Morrison (1898)

"But I don't suppose," Mrs Grantly remarked briskly, still standing draped in the obnoxious material, "that there is any bye-law to the effect that the garments should be of an odious and humiliating description." ❋ Unknown (1898)

They submitted to the Directors the enactment of a bye-law rendering no more than sixteen of the existing ❋ Dutton Cook (1856)

Attorney-General being further of opinion that the proposed bye-law was not in any way inconsistent with the terms of the society's charter. ❋ Dutton Cook (1856)

It was proposed that a bye-law should be passed, rendering compulsory the retirement of eight out of the twenty-four Directors every year, and that the retiring Directors should be replaced by other members of the society. ❋ Dutton Cook (1856)

They may be members of any lay body corporate, except Trinity College, any law, statute, or bye-law of such corporation to the contrary notwithstanding. ❋ Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1846)

A special bye-law, at a still later period, was necessary to admit Colonel William ❋ Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1846)