public law en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
Meanings
- (uncountable) A category of law governing the relationship between the state on the one hand and persons (citizens or legal persons including corporations) on the other.
-
(countable) Any of the individual laws that constitute that body of law.
And be it enacted, That the work be published in octavo form, in one volume, and on paper, and with types as good as those of the last revision of the laws of this state, and with a copious alphabetical index of all the matters contained in this new compilation, and in the last revision of the public laws of this state.
1833, New Jersey Legislature, “An Act making provision for a compilation of the Public Laws of this state. Passed the 12th of February, 1833”, in A Compilation of the Public Laws of the State of New-Jersey, Passed Since the Revision in the Year 1820, Arranged and Published Under the Authority of the Legislature, by Josiah Harrison, Camden, New Jersey: Josiah Harrison, page 442:public laws of this state
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| public laws | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Hypernyms
Relateds
Translations (30)
hi जन कानून (law) · fr droit public (law) · la iūs pūblicum (law) · ru обще́ственное пра́во (law) · de öffentliches Recht (law) · it diritto pubblico (law) · nl publiekrecht (law) · no offentlig rett (law) · th กฎหมายมหาชน (law) · fa حقوق عمومی (law) · pt direito público (law) · hu közjog (law) · ja 公法 (law) · sv offentlig rätt (law) · el δημόσιο δίκαιο (law) · fi julkisoikeus (law) · lv publiskās tiesības (law) · fy publykrjocht (law) · et avalik õigus (law) · es derecho público (law) · ru публи́чное пра́во (law) · ro drept public (law) · cmn 公法 (law) · lt viešoji teisė (law) · uk публі́чне пра́во (law) · ca dret públic (law) · ko 공법 (law) · pl prawo publiczne (law) · tr kamu hukuku (law) · sk verejné právo (law)