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public law

public law noun: 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.

Noun

public law (countable and uncountable, plural public laws)

  1. (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.
  2. (countable) Any of the individual laws that constitute that body of law.
    • public laws of this state
    • 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...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...

public law meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Persian and Thai

public law in Hindi

law
जन कानून jan kānūn

public law in Tamil

பொதுச் சட்டம்

public law in Persian

law
حقوق عمومی

public law in Thai

law
กฎหมายมหาชน gòt-mǎai-má-hǎa-chon

Forms of public law

pluralpublic laws

Questions about public law

What does public law mean?
Public law means 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.
What is public law in Hindi?
Public law in Hindi is जन कानून (jan kānūn). See Public law meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is public law?
Public law is a noun.
What is the plural of public law?
The plural of public law is public laws.

Words near public law in the dictionary

  1. public key certificate
  2. public key certificates
  3. public key cryptography
  4. public keys
  5. public knowledge
  6. public law
  7. public laws
  8. public libraries
  9. public library
  10. public licence
  11. public licences

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: public law (page history and authors); public law (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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