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Birlaw

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Bir´law
n.1.(Law) A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law.
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Rather, Goodare is interested in showing the processes that grow up around both national institutions, such as Parliament, the Privy Council, and the Court of Sessions, and local ones, like the baronial, burgh, and birlaw courts, and he demonstrates how the larger political community interacted with these.
The Government of Scotland, 1560-1625 by Mueller, Robert J. / Renaissance Quarterly
The 18 essays discuss borrowing from the Welsh lawbooks, birlaw courts and birleymen, evidence from 18th-century England concerning the value of judicial independence, indigenous customary rights and the common law in Aotearoa in New Zealand, the Spanish champaign case, and other topics.
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