What is the difference between bylaw and law?

Answer 1

Laws are enacted by the state, and apply to everyone in it Bylaws are enacted by towns, and by non-governmental bodies; these last can be anything from a lodge of Freemasons to the trustees of a park. Bylaws are in a sense voluntary - if you don't like the bylaws, then move to a different town, don't become a mason, visit another park. By is an old Norwegian word for town, so bylaw probably comes from town-law.

Answer 2

Laws are enacted by the state, and apply to everyone in it

Bylaws are enacted non-governmental bodies; these last can be anything from a lodge of Freemasons to the trustees of a park, or the internal rules of a corporation.

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The statements below were for a similar question. Apparently in the country that this answer came from, by-law has a different meaning than in the United States.

There are two different types of laws - there is common law and statutory law. Statutory Law is law which is created by Parliament and written down in an act and is binding on all courts in the country. Common law is law created by the courts in case law and follows a system of precedent to decide what is binding.

By-laws are a form of statutory law - i.e. law that is created by parliament and written. As Acts of Parliament are very broad it is necessary for them delegate some of their legislative powers to other governmental organisations (civil servants) to create the law that will 'fill in the gaps'. There are different forms of this type of legislation which come under the umbrella term of 'delegated legislation'. By-laws are form of delegated legislation. They are still binding - but are passed with the permission of parliament rather than directly by parliament themselves and they generally only affect certain areas of the country (e.g. a particular county or jurisdiction) rather than the country as a whole.

Answer 3

a bylaw is a rule or law set up before something like a club and a law can be bylaws and amendments.