All bylaw synonyms

noun bylaw

• case — A particular case is a particular situation or incident, especially one that you are using as an individual example or instance of something.
• statute — Law. an enactment made by a legislature and expressed in a formal document. the document in which such an enactment is expressed.
• requirement — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
• code — A code is a set of rules about how people should behave or about how something must be done.
• constitution — The constitution of a country or organization is the system of laws which formally states people's rights and duties.
• charter — A charter is a formal document describing the rights, aims, or principles of an organization or group of people.
• mandate — a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
• decision — When you make a decision, you choose what should be done or which is the best of various possible actions.
• act — When you act, you do something for a particular purpose.
• legislation — the act of making or enacting laws.
• decree — A decree is an official order or decision, especially one made by the ruler of a country.
• precedent — Law. a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases.
• regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
• ruling — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
• charge — If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
• measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
• order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
• covenant — A covenant is a formal written agreement between two or more people or groups of people which is recognized in law.
• injunction — Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
• canon — A canon is a member of the clergy who is on the staff of a cathedral.
• summons — an authoritative command, message, or signal by which one is summoned.
• precept — a commandment or direction given as a rule of action or conduct.
• behest — an authoritative order or earnest request
• dictate — If you dictate something, you say or read it aloud for someone else to write down.
• ordinance — an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
• prescript — prescribed.
• commandment — The Ten Commandments are the ten rules of behaviour which, according to the Old Testament of the Bible, people should obey.
• command — If someone in authority commands you to do something, they tell you that you must do it.
• warrant — authorization, sanction, or justification.
• edict — a decree issued by a sovereign or other authority. Synonyms: dictum, pronouncement.
• notice — an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning: a day's notice.
• garnishment — Law. a warning, served on a third party to hold, subject to the court's direction, money or property belonging to a debtor who is being sued by a creditor. a summons to a third party to appear in litigation pending between a creditor and debtor.
• bidding — an order; command (often in the phrases do or follow the bidding of, at someone's bidding)
• demand — If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
• prescription — Medicine/Medical. a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy. the medicine prescribed: Take this prescription three times a day.
• institute — to set up; establish; organize: to institute a government.
• instruction — machine instruction
• assize — a sitting of a legislative assembly or administrative body
• divestiture — the act of divesting.
• writ — Law. a formal order under seal, issued in the name of a sovereign, government, court, or other competent authority, enjoining the officer or other person to whom it is issued or addressed to do or refrain from some specified act. (in early English law) any formal document in letter form, under seal, and in the sovereign's name.
• subpoena — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
• caveat — A caveat is a warning of a specific limitation of something such as information or an agreement.
• jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.
• decretum — the name given to various collections of canon law, esp that made by the monk Gratian in the 12th century, which forms the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici
• reg — a male given name, form of Reginald.