Usually means: Law governing state and society.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. public law: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. public law: Merriam-Webster
  3. public law: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. public law: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. public law: Collins English Dictionary
  6. public law: Vocabulary.com
  7. public law: Wordnik
  8. public-law, public law: Wiktionary
  9. public law: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. public law: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. public law: Dictionary.com
  12. Public Law (journal), Public Law, Public law (United States), Public law: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. public law: Rhymezone
  14. public law: FreeDictionary.org
  15. public law: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. public law, public law (2): TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. public law: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. C-SPAN Congressional Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Public Law, public law (2): Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. public law (2): Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. public law (2): Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (public law)

▸ noun:  (law) 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. Constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law are some of the major subdivisions of public law.

Similar:
Pub. L., private law, civil law, legal person, law of the land, legal code, substantive law, con law, private international law, positive law, more...

Opposite:
private law, civil law, common law

Phrases:
public international law, public law (2), Public interest law, Public Law 280, more...

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Similar:
Pub. L., private law, civil law, legal person, law of the land, legal code, substantive law, con law, private international law, positive law, more...

Opposite:
private law, civil law, common law

Phrases:
public international law, public law (2), Public interest law, Public Law 280, more...



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