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public law

  1. a law or statute affecting or applicable to the public generally
  2. the branch of law concerned with the relations of individuals to the state and with the state as an entity capable of acting as if a private person

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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