Legal Dictionary

Tag: BY

  • By-pass

    Concept of By-pass in the context of Real Property A short definition of By-pass: A road designed to avoid or pass by a high density area, such as a business section of a city, in order to ease traffic congestion. Also called a belt highway.

  • Valorise

    Legal Usage of Valorise in English An European Commission document offers the following explanation about the misused of Valorise :’To valorise’ means ‘to fix and maintain an artificial price for (a commodity) by governmental action’. In European Union texts, however, it is […]

  • Bylaws

    Bylaws

    See alsoThe rules adopted by a corporation (in U.S. law)… (Read more)…

  • Byte

    Byte in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of byte.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Police Officer Law Enforcement Agency Further Reading byte in A Dictionary of Law […]

  • Byelaw

    Byelaw in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of byelaw.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Police Officer Law Enforcement Agency Further Reading byelaw in A Dictionary of Law […]

  • By Inch Of Candle

    Sale by the candle….

  • Bystanders

    Talesmen….

  • Byzantine Code

    Basilica….

  • Byzantine Law

    Roman law….

  • By Virtue Of

    By force of; by authority of; by reason of.

  • By

    Depending on context, can mean near to, no later than, causing, as agent, and much else. When a statutory or contractual provision says something must be done by a particular date, it causes trouble because it is not entirely clear if […]

  • By Operation Of Law

    Automatically, so to speak, and not through a contractual or other purposeful juridical act of a person. If, for example, a statute were passed providing that all leasehold interests longer than ninety-nine years were to become fees, then one would be vested with fee title by operation of […]

  • By Reason Of

    Because of, as in Not guilty by reason of insanity….

  • By God And My Country

    In old English criminal practice. The established formula of reply by a prisoner, when arraigned at the bar, to the question, Culprit, how wilt thou be tried? Mr. Barrington thinks the correct formula must originally have been, By God or my country, i. e., by […]

  • By The Bye

    In practice. Without process. A declaration is said to be filed by the bye when it is filed against a party already in the custody of the court under process in another suit. This might have been done, formerly, where the party was under arrest, and technically in the custody of the […]