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Pertaining to a state, nation, or whole community; proceeding from, re- lating to, or affecting the whole body of peo- ple or an entire community. Open to all; notorious. Common to all or many; general; | open to common use. A distinction has been made between the terms "public" and "general." They are sometimes used as synonymous. The former term is applied strictly to that which concerns all the citizens and every member of the state; while the latter in- cludes a lesser, though still a large, portion of the community. 1 Greenl. Ev. § 128. As a noun, the word "public" denotes the whole body politic, or the aggregate of the citizens of a state, district, or municipality.

Pertaining to a state, nation, or whole community; proceeding from, re lating to, or afrecting the whole body of people or an entire community. Open to all; notorious. Common to all or many; general; open to common use. Morgan v. Cree, 46 Vt. 786, 14 Am. Rep. 640; Crane v. Waters (C. C.) 10 Fed. 621; Austin v. Soule, 36 Vt. 650; Appeal of Eliot, 74 Conn. 586, 51 Atl. 558; O’Hara v. Miller, 1 Kulp (Pa.) 295. A distinction has been made between the terms “‘public’ and ‘‘general.” They are sometimes used as synonymous. The former term is applied strictly to that which concerns all the citizens and every member of the state; while the latter inclades a lesser, though still a at acd of the community. 1 Greenl. v. : As a noun, the word “public” denotes the whole body politic, or the aggregate of the citizens of a state, district, or municipality. Knight v. Thomas, 93 Me. 404, 45 Atl. 499; State v. Luce, 9 Houst. (Del.) 396, 32 Atl. 1076; Wyatt v. Irrigation Co., 1 Colo. App. 480, 29 Pac. 906. —Public appointments. Public offices or stations which are to be filled by the appointment of individuals, under authority of law, instead of by election—Public building. One of which the possession and use, as well as the roperty in it, are in the public. Pancoast v. roth, 34 N. J. Law, 383.—Public law. That branch or department of law which is concerned with the state in its political or sovereign capacity, including constitutional and administrative law, and with the definition, regulation, and enforcement of rights in cases where the state is regarded as the subject of the right or object of the duty,—including criminal law and criminal procedure,—and the law of the state, considered in its quast private personality, t. €., as capable of holding or exercising rights, or acquiring and dealing with property, in the character of an individual. See Holl. Jur. 106, 300. That portion of law which is concerned with political conditions; that is to say, with the powers, rights, duties, capacities, and incapacities which are peculiar to political superiors, supreme ard subordinate. Aust. Jur. “Public law,” in one sense, is a designation given to “‘international law,” as distinguished from the laws of a particular nation or state. In another sense, a law or statute that applies to the people generally of the nation or state adopting or enacting it, is denominated a public law, as contradistinguished from a private law, affecting only an individual or a small number of persons. Morgan v. Cree, 46 Vt. 773, 14 Am. Rep. §40.—Public offense. <A public offense is an act or omission forbidden by law, and punishable as by law provided. Code Ala. 1886, § 3699. Ford v. State. 7 Ind. App. 567, 35 N. 34; Stnte v. Cantieny, 34 Minn. 1, 24 N. W. 458. —Public passage. A right, subsisting in the public, to pass over a y of water, whether the land under it be public or owned by a private person.—Public place. <A place to which the genera] public has a right to resort; not

(1034) bankruptcy as fully as the creditor himself could act. Robs. Bankr. 181 et seq.; Bankruptcy Act, 1869, s. 80, 28. were designed for the accommodation of such of the parishioners as in course of time had begun to fix their residence at a distance from its site, and chapels so circumstanced were described as PROXY, VOTE BY, (in by-law of corporation). chapels of ease, because built in aid of the origi5 Day (Conn.) 329. Prudenter agit qui præcepto legis obtemperat (5 Co. 49): He acts prudently who obeys the command of the law. PRYK.- A kind of service of tenure. Blount says it signifies an old-fashioned spur with one point only, which the tenant, holding land by this tenure, was to find for the king.- Wharton. PSEUDOGRAPH.-False writing. (1035) body of American law on this subject. See LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD; NUISANCE;

Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the public treasury. To the public good Private respects must yield. Milton. He [Alexander Hamilton] touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet. D. Webster. Open to the knowledge or view of all; general; common; notorious; as, public report; public scandal. Joseph, . . . not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. Matt. i. 19. Open to common or general use; as, a public road; a public house. "The public street." Shak. Public act or statute (Law), an act or statute affecting matters of public concern. Of such statutes the courts take judicial notice. -- Public credit. See under Credit. -- Public funds. See Fund, 3. -- Public house, an inn, or house of entertainment. -- Public law. (a) See International law, under International. (b) A public act or statute. -- Public nuisance. (Law) See under Nuisance. -- Public orator. (Eng. Universities) See Orator, 3. -- Public stores, military and naval stores, equipments, etc. -- Public works, all fixed works built by civil engineers for public use, as railways, docks, canals, etc.; but strictly, military and civil engineering works constructed at the public cost.

The general body of mankind, or of a nation, state, or community; the people, indefinitely; as, the American public; also, a particular body or aggregation of people; as, an author's public. The public is more disposed to censure than to praise. Addison. A public house; an inn. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott. In public, openly; before an audience or the people at large; not in private or secrecy. "We are to speak in public." Shak.

Able to be known or seen by everyone; happening without concealment; open to general view. | Open to all members of a community, as opposed to only a segment of it; especially, provided by national or local authorities and supported by money from taxes. | Open to all members of a community, as opposed to only a segment of it; especially, provided by national or local authorities and supported by money from taxes. | Of a company: having shares of stock traded publicly, for example, through a stock market. | Pertaining to the people as a whole, as opposed to a group of people; concerning the whole community or country. | Officially representing the community; carried out or funded by the government or state on behalf of the community, rather than by a private organization. | Pertaining to a person in the capacity in which they deal with other people on a formal or official basis, as opposed to a personal or private capacity; official, professional. | Of an object: accessible to the program in general, not only to a class or subclass. | Pertaining to nations collectively, or to nations regarded as civilized; international, supernational. | Now chiefly in public spirit and public-spirited: seeking to further the best interests or well-being of the community or nation. | Now only in public figure: famous, prominent, well-known. | In some older universities in the United Kingdom: open or pertaining to the whole university, as opposed to a constituent college or an individual staff member or student. | Of or pertaining to the human race as a whole; common, universal. | Chiefly in make public: of a work: printed or otherwise published.

Chiefly preceded by the: members of the community or the people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group. | Preceded by a possessive determiner such as my, your, or their: a group of people who support a particular person, especially a performer, a writer, etc.; an audience, a following. | Ellipsis of public house or (dated) public bar (“an inn, a pub: the more basic bar in a public house, as contrasted with the lounge bar or saloon bar which has more comfortable seats, personalized service, etc.”). | Often preceded by the and a qualifying word: a particular demographic or group of people, or segment of the population, sharing some common characteristic. | Often preceded by the and a qualifying word: a particular demographic or group of people, or segment of the population, sharing some common characteristic. | A group of people sharing some common cultural, political, or social interest, but not necessarily having any interactions with each other. | Chiefly preceded by the: a collective body of a politically organized nation or state; a body politic, a nation, a state; also, the interest or well-being of such a collective body; the common good. | At Harvard University: a penalty imposed on a student involving a grade reduction which is communicated to the student's parents or guardian. | Chiefly in in public: the presence of spectators or people generally; the open.

To make (something) openly or widely known; to publicize, to publish.