BY-LAWS

Date "BY-LAWS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references)

Insurance

Literature

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Crosswords: BY-LAWS

Periodicals

• Constitution By-laws Regulations & Policies (reference)

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Constitution and by-laws of the Angoon Community Association. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Children

Malaysia

By year's end, it was not possible to verify whether building by-laws had been amended. (references)

Malaysia

In October 2000, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government announced that the uniform building by-laws would be amended to ensure that all newly constructed buildings include a full range of facilities for persons with disabilities, including special parking lots, elevators, and restrooms. (references)

Civil Liberties

Lebanon

The Ministry also required every association to obtain the Ministry's approval of any change in by-laws; failure to do so could result in the dissolution of the association. (references)

Economic History

Peru

The by-laws may eliminate this right. (references)

Georgia

Firm names are protected by the Civil Code and the Law on Entrepreneurship, as well as by other by-laws on industrial property. (references)

Peru

This certificate must state that the parent company is not prohibited, by law or by its by-laws, from establishing branches abroad. (references)

Minorities

Israel and the occupied territories

The High Court ruled that the Government's use of the Jewish National Fund to develop public land was discriminatory, since the fund's by-laws prohibit the sale or lease of land to non-Jews. (references)

Political Economy

SAUDI ARABIA

The GCC Patent Office issued its first patents in spring 2001. Revisions to the GCC patent law were approved at the GCC Supreme Council Summit in Riyadh in November 1999. Amendments to the implementing by-laws were approved in April 2000 and entered into force on August 15, 2000. These changes include extension of the term of protection from 15 years to 20 years (from the date of filing of the patent application with the GCC patent office), and the extension of protection to pharmaceutical products in all GCC states, including product and process protection. (references)

Worker Rights

Jordan

Union by-laws limit membership to citizens, effectively excluding the country's approximately 1.5 million foreign workers. (references)

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Danish

vedtaegter. (various references)

Dutch

statuut (regulations, rules, statute). (various references)

Esperanto

statuto (regulations, statute). (various references)

Faeroese

samtykt (regulations, statute), lóg (law, regulations, statute), felagslóg (regulations, statute). (various references)

French

statut. (various references)

German

Statuten (bylaws). (various references)

Greek 

εσωτερικοί κανονισμοί. (various references)

Italian

statuto sociale. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

細則 (detailed regulations), 付則 (additional rules, supplementary provisions). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さいそく (claim, demand, detailed regulations, press for, request, urge), ふそく (accidental, additional clause, additional rules, dearth, deficiency, insufficiency, lack, shortage, supplementary provisions, unexpected, unforeseen). (various references)

Pig Latin

y-lawsbay

Portuguese

estatuto de uma sociedade, estatuto de uma empresa. (various references)

Russian 

устав (bylaws, charter, consuetudinary, organization chart, regulations, rule, statute, statutes). (various references)

Spanish

estatutos (charter). (various references)

Swedish

statut (regulations, statute). (various references)

Misspellings

"BY-LAWS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Oy-als. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bylaws.

-1 letter: bawls, blaws, bylaw, yawls.

-2 letters: ably, abys, albs, awls, bals, bawl, bays, blaw, labs, laws, lays, slab, slaw, slay, swab, sway, wabs, waly, ways, yawl, yaws.

-3 letters: abs, aby, alb, als, awl, ays, bal, bas, bay, bys, lab, las, law, lay, sab, sal, saw, say, sly, wab, was, way, yaw.

-4 letters: ab, al, as.

+1 letter: byelaws.

+2 letters: beltways, swayable, waybills.

+3 letters: cableways.

+4 letters: sewability, twayblades.

+5 letters: washability.