Definition of Public property

1. Noun. Property owned by a government.

Generic synonyms: Belongings, Holding, Property

Definition of Public property

1. Noun. Property, assets or information directly owned by or under the control of the state. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Public Property

public mover
public nudity
public nuisance
public office
public officer
public officers
public offices
public opinion
public opinion poll
public opinions
public ownership
public policies
public policy
public presentation
public press
public property (current term)
public prosecutor
public record
public relations
public relations man
public relations person
public school
public schools
public sector
public sectors
public security
public servant
public servants
public service

Literary usage of Public property

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1909)
"There Is no express provision In the charter of the city that public property shall be subject to the assessment provided for, nor Is there any provision In ..."

2. The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty (1883)
"Du« to preserve her public property—to make a proper use of ties of a n». ... The public property is extremely useful and even necessary to the nation ..."

3. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"Such are the rules regarding moveable public Property property found in enemy territory; but they were ..."

4. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"public property The largest property owner in the United States is the ... Roads and streets are either public property outright or the public has the sole ..."

5. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1904)
"This exclusive right includes the public property or domain of the State, ... The right of the State to its public property or domain is absolute, ..."

6. Property and Contract in Their Relations to the Distribution of Wealth by Richard Theodore Ely, Samuel Peter Orth, Willford Isbell King (1914)
"CHAPTER XXI THE MANAGEMENT OF public property WITH REFERENCE TO DISTRIBUTION In its very nature public property carries with it social control, for public ..."

7. Economics: An Account of the Relations Between Private Property and Public by Arthur Twining Hadley (1896)
"Whether the public wealth is likely to be increased in any particular case as an indirect result of making more of it public property, can only be decided ..."

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