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Edict

A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority as if by the

leaflet

intended for free distribution vi -let·ed or: -let·ted -let·ing or: -let·ting : to hand out leaflets [invalidated an ordinance banning all leafleting "David Kairys"] vb leased leas·ing vt 1 : to grant by lease to another [s

leaflet

intended for free distribution vi -let·ed or: -let·ted -let·ing or: -let·ting : to hand out leaflets [invalidated an ordinance banning all leafleting "David Kairys"] vb leased leas·ing vt 1 : to grant by lease to another [s

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land use

as zoning and/or the control of real estate developments. Land-use planning laws are implemented by local zoning and ordinances. Source: FindLaw

constitution

and the Constitution in the back matter compare charter, declaration NOTE: A constitution was originally simply a law, ordinance, or decree usually made by a king, emperor, or other superior authority. A constitution now usually contains the

city court

: a court having jurisdiction over local civil matters and often petty criminal matters (as violations of city ordinances)

bylaw

organization chiefly for the government of its members and the management of its affairs 2 : a local ordinance often used in pl.

Eastern Church

kinds using leavened bread and to infants as well as adults permits its secular clergy to marry before ordination and to keep their wives afterward but not to marry a second time selects its bishops from the

Fifteenth

Next in order after the fourteenth the ordinal of fifteen

Bishop

the lords spiritual in Parliament: see HOUSE OF LORDS. A bishop has three powers: (1) a power of ordination, gained on his consecration, by which he confers orders, etc., in any place throughout the world; (2) a

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