单词 | public law |
释义 | public lawn. Law. 1. (a) A law that applies to everyone. (b) The law governing relations between individuals and the State, or the conduct of the State. ΘΚΠ society > law > branch of the law > [noun] > public law public law1531 1531 tr. E. Fox et al. Determinations Moste Famous Vniuersities vii. f. 152v There be two lawes saith pope Vrban, one public an other priuate. And the public lawe is that, whiche hath ben confirmed by writynge of the holye fathers. The priuate lawe is the lawe that is written in mennes hartes. 1539 R. Taverner Garden of Wysdom sig. B.viiiv The rule of the wedded woman is the husbande, and she liueth ryghtly yf he be obedyent to the publique lawes. 1615 J. Stephens Satyrical Ess. 10 Corrupted Officers, the common curse Of publicke Law. 1662 J. Dryden Wks. (1884) IX. 65 Justice, that sits and frowns where public laws Exclude soft mercy from a private cause. 1761 T. Bever Discourse Jurisprudence & Civil Law 41 Politic law..is called by most of the older writers, the public law of states. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 5 A crime, or misdemesnor, is an act committed, or omitted, in violation of a public law, either forbidding or commanding it. 1773 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. I. i. i. 9 The public law is that which hath more immediately in view the public weal, and the preservation and good order of society. 1887 Polit. Sci. Q. 2 212 Public administration is detailed and systematic execution of public law. 1923 W. J. Byrne Dict. Eng. Law 519/2 Public law is that part of the law which deals with the State, either by itself or in its relations with individuals. 1960 Amer. Jrnl. Compar. Law 9 150/1 Indian public law still strongly reflects its English background. 1976 J. M. Kelly Stud. Civil Judicature Roman Republ. iii. 78 A second class obviously due for exclusion is that which can be broadly labelled ‘public law’; legitimate subdivisions of this would be fiscal law, military law, and ‘local government’ or ‘police’ law. 2. Law common to or accepted by a number of different States; law governing relations between States, international law; †a law of this kind (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > law > branch of the law > [noun] > law of nations or international law the law of nations1548 public law1548 jus gentium?1549 international law1789 1548 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John viii. f. lviii He ought not after our common, or rather publike law [L. legem publicam], (that is to saye, a lawe which indifferently perteyneth to all men of euery state) to be condemned, except his cause be knowen before. 1683 J. Smith Doctr. Church of Eng. conc. Lord's Day 182 In Job's time..the World grew propense to this idolizing of the Sun; but hitherto the Noachal Religion was so prevalent, as the publick Law of the Nations opposed its Incroachment. 1726 S. Whatley tr. P. de Rapin-Thoyras Acta Regia II. x. 205 The States order the said Peace to be observ'd as a public Law. 1797 E. Burke Three Memorials on French Affairs 94 In contradiction to the whole tenour of the publick Law of Europe. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 9 Races separated from each other by seas and mountains acknowledged..a common code of public law. 1856 tr. Gen. Treaty Great Brit., Austria, France, Prussia, Russia, Sardinia, & Turkey xv. 21 This arrangement henceforth forms a part of the public law of Europe. 1993 B. Farthing Internat. Shipping (ed. 2) iv. 33 The public law of the sea also covers such basic principles as rights of passage through international canals, waterways and important international straits. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1531 |
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