Bŷ'-lāw, n.

n. [A-S. bilage, a private law, from bi, by, and lagu, law.] A law aside from the general or public law; a local or subordinate law; a private law or regulation made by a corporation for its own government.

There was likewise a law to restrain the by-laws, or ordinances of corporations. Bacon.

The law or institution; to which are added two by-laws, as a comment upon the general law. Addison.