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public law

NOUN
law affecting the public
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She began her career in the legal industry with an international public law background.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 27, 2026

Thomas Hooker, the 17th-century “father of Connecticut,” invoked the model of the biblical “Hebrew Republic” in Election Day sermons to the settlers of that church-state, whose separation of religion and public law would come later.

From Salon Mar. 31, 2024

Family courts hear both public law cases, where children may be removed from their families, and private law cases, where parents are separating.

From BBC Dec. 1, 2023

Separately, 71 Australian university teachers of constitution law and other fields of public law signed an open letter published Friday that rebutted the argument that the Voice would be “risky.”

From Seattle Times Oct. 5, 2023

Yes, such were the indisputable results of those decretals from which the popes had compiled the public law of Christendom.

From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou



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