What is BY-LAWS? Definition of BY-LAWS in Black's Law Dictionary
Regulations, ordinances, rules or laws adopted by an association or corporation or the like for its government. The word has also been used to designate the local laws or municipal statutes of a city or town. See Kilgour v. Gratto, 224 Mass. 78, 112 N.E. 489, 490. But of late the tendency is to employ the word "ordinance" ex- clusively for this class of enactments, reserving "by-law" for the rules adopted by private corpora. tions.
In England the term by-law includes any order, rule or regulation made by any local authority or statutory corporation subordinate to Parliament; 1 Odgers, C.L. 91.
A resolution is not necessarily a by-law though a by-law may be in the form of a resolution. Peck v. Elliott, C.C.A. Tenn., 24 C.C.A. 425, 79 Fed. 10, 38 L.R.A. 616; Bagley v.
Oil Co., 201 Pa. 78, 50 A. 760, 56 L.R.A. 184. Distinction between a -by-law and a regulation, if any, discussed, Compton v. Van Volkenburgh, 34 N.J.Law, 135.
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