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Bilagines

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

JBellagines, Bilaga. L. Lat. [from by, Sax. a dwelling, Goth, a town, and lagen^ laws.] In old law. The laws of towns; laws made by the inhabitants of towns for their own government, {leges quas villarum incolcs sibi eonstituerint oiiervandc Ls); municipal laws; by-laws. Spelman, voc.

Bellagines.

See By-Laws, This word is found in Gothic writers, by whom it is usually written bellagines, (q. v.) Jwnandes de reb. Get. c.

11, cited in Spelman.