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Definition of Public law
1. Noun. A law affecting the public at large.
Definition of Public law
1. Noun. (legal) A category of law governing the relationship between the state on one hand and persons (citizens or legal persons including corporations) on the other. Constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law are some of the major subdivisions of public law. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Public Law
Literary usage of Public law
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States by John Codman Hurd (1858)
"The public law (jus publicum) comprehends those rules of law which relate to ...
As I shall show further, public law and private law are names which should ..."
2. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States by John Codman Hurd (1858)
"The public law (jut publicum) comprehends those rules of law which relate to ...
As I shall show further, public law and private lorn are names which should ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In general public law as contradistinguished from private law, ... What are the
characteristics of public law and how does it differ from private law ? ..."
4. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"HAVING discussed the distinction between Law of Things and v Law of Persons, I
proceed to the connected distinction between public law and Private Law. ..."
5. Lectures on jurisprudence or the philosophy of positive law by John Austin (1885)
"private and public law is to be observed, these must enter into Pertinents, public
law. — If crimes and criminal procedure are ..."
6. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1904)
"It may more properly be called external public law, to distinguish it from the
internal public law of a particular State. The first part of the ancient jus ..."
7. An Introduction to the Constitutional Law of the United States: Especially by John Norton Pomeroy, Edmund Hatch Bennett (1886)
"Austin says :i " public law, in its strict and definite signification, is confined
to that portion of law which is concerned with political conditions; ..."
8. An Introduction to the Constitutional Law of the United States: Especially by John Norton Pomeroy, Edmund Hatch Bennett (1886)
"Austin says :1 " public law, in its strict and definite signification, is confined
to that portion of law which is concerned with political conditions; ..."
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