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Public order-public policy
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Public order-public policyIn domestic law, public order (a civil law term) refers to domestic rules and legal principles reflecting lofty standards of morality and social conduct in a civilized society, while public policy (a common law term) refers to fundamental principles of natural justice found in a state's constitution, bill of rights, laws, regulations, precedents and accepted customs.
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Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Order
An instruction rightfully given by someone superior in hyerarchy. Also, a social state of civil coexistance without widespread public violence.
Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Rules
English law. The rules of the King's Bench and Fleet are certain limits without the actual walls of the prisons, where the prisoner, on proper security previously given to the marshal of the king's bench, or warden of the fleet, may reside; those limits are considered, for all legal and practical purposes, as merely a further extension of the prison walls.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Principles
By this term is understood truths or propositions so clear that they cannot be proved nor contradicted, unless by propositions which are still clearer. They are of two kinds, one when the principle is universal, and these are kuown as axioms or maxims; as, no one can transmit rights which he has not; the accessory follows the principal, &c. The other class are simply called first principles.
Conduct
Law of nations. This term is used in the phrase safe conduct, to signify the security given, by authority of the government, under the great seal, to a stranger, for his quietly coming into and passing out of the territories over which it has jurisdiction.
Society
A society is a number of persons united together by mutual consent, in order to deliberate, determine, and act jointly for some common purpose.
Common
marriage law. a marriage in which no formal ceremony took place and no license exists.
Fundamental
This word is applied to those laws which are the foundation of society. Those laws by which the exercise of power is restrained and regulated, are fundamental. The Constitution of the United States is the fundamental law of the land.
Justice
Fairness. A state of affairs in which conduct or action is both fair and right, given the circumstances. In law, it more specifically refers to the paramount obligation to ensure that all persons are treated fairly. Litigants "seek justice" by asking for compensation for wrongs committed against them; to right the inequity such that, with the compensation, a wrong has been righted and the balance of "good" or "virtue" over "wrong" or "evil" has been corrected.
Constitution
1) Contracts. The constitution of a contract, is the making of the contract as, the written constitution of a debt. 2) Government. The fundamental law of the state, containing the principles upon which the government is founded, and regulating the divisions of the sovereign powers, directing to what persons each of these powers is to be confided, and the, manner it is to be exercised as, the Constitution of the United States.
Bill
1) Legislation. An instrument drawn or presented by a member or committee to a legislative body for its approbation and enactment. After it has gone through both houses and received the constitutional sanction of the chief magistrate, where such approbation is requisite, it becomes a law. 2) Merchant law. An account containing the items of goods sold, or of work done by one person against another. 3) Contracts. A bill or obligation, is a deed whereby the obligor acknowledges himself to owe unto the obligee a certain sum of money or some other thing, in which, besides the names of the parties, are to be considered the sum or thing due, the time, place, and manner of payment or delivery thereof. It may be indented, or poll, and with or without a penalty.
Customs
This term is usually applied to those taxes which are payable upon goods and merchandise imported or exported.
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Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Public company
Companies are incorporated as either private or public. Public companies require a minimum capital investment and are designed for use as more substantial companies with wide share ownership. They may be listed. Private companies are the category which represents the remainder of companies.
Public debt
That which is due or owing by the government.
Public defender
Government lawyer who provides free legal defense services to a poor person accused of a crime.
Public domain
A term of American copyright law referring to works that are not copyright protected, free for all to use without permission. Examples include works that were originally non-copyrightable (items that by their very nature are not eligible for copyright such as ideas, facts or names), copyright that has been lost or expired, where copyright is owned or authored by the federal government (federal documents and publications are not copyrighted and so are public domain), and those works which have been specifically granted to the public domain.
Public domain or national
National or public domain. All the property which belongs to the state is comprehended under the name of national or public domain.
Public easement
Exists in favor of the people generally.
Public enemy
This word, used in the singular number, designates a nation at war with the United States, and includes every member of such nation.
Public law
A public law is one in which all persons have an interest
Public passage
This term is synonymous with public highway, with this difference; by the latter, is understood a right to pass over the land of another; by the former is meant the right of going over the water which is on another's land.
Public policy
By public policy is meant that which the law encourages for the promotion of the public good.
Public service commission
Also, Public Utilities Commission. A state agency which regulates utilities.
Publican
civil law. A farmer of the public revenue; one who held a lease of some property from the public treasury.
Publication
The act by which a thing is made public.
Publici juris
(United Kingdom) Of public right.
Publiciana
Civil law. The name of an action introduced by the proctor Publicius, the object of which was to recover a thing which had been lost
Publicity
The doing of a thing in the view of all persons who choose to be present.
Publisher
One who does by himself or his agents make a thing publicly known; one engaged in the circulation of books, pamphlets, and other papers.
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Public domain
A term of American copyright law referring to works that are not copyright protected, free for all to use without permission. Examples include works that were originally non-copyrightable (items that by their very nature are not eligible for copyright such as ideas, facts or names), copyright that has been lost or expired, where copyright is owned or authored by the federal government (federal documents and publications are not copyrighted and so are public domain), and those works which have been specifically granted to the public domain.
Public domain or national
National or public domain. All the property which belongs to the state is comprehended under the name of national or public domain.
Public easement
Exists in favor of the people generally.
Public enemy
This word, used in the singular number, designates a nation at war with the United States, and includes every member of such nation.
Public law
A public law is one in which all persons have an interest
Public order-public policy
Public passage
This term is synonymous with public highway, with this difference; by the latter, is understood a right to pass over the land of another; by the former is meant the right of going over the water which is on another's land.
Public policy
By public policy is meant that which the law encourages for the promotion of the public good.
Public service commission
Also, Public Utilities Commission. A state agency which regulates utilities.
Publican
civil law. A farmer of the public revenue; one who held a lease of some property from the public treasury.
Publication
The act by which a thing is made public.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Order
An instruction rightfully given by someone superior in hyerarchy. Also, a social state of civil coexistance without widespread public violence.
Civil
1) It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty. 2) It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction.
Rules
English law. The rules of the King's Bench and Fleet are certain limits without the actual walls of the prisons, where the prisoner, on proper security previously given to the marshal of the king's bench, or warden of the fleet, may reside; those limits are considered, for all legal and practical purposes, as merely a further extension of the prison walls.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Principles
By this term is understood truths or propositions so clear that they cannot be proved nor contradicted, unless by propositions which are still clearer. They are of two kinds, one when the principle is universal, and these are kuown as axioms or maxims; as, no one can transmit rights which he has not; the accessory follows the principal, &c. The other class are simply called first principles.
Conduct
Law of nations. This term is used in the phrase safe conduct, to signify the security given, by authority of the government, under the great seal, to a stranger, for his quietly coming into and passing out of the territories over which it has jurisdiction.
Society
A society is a number of persons united together by mutual consent, in order to deliberate, determine, and act jointly for some common purpose.
Common
marriage law. a marriage in which no formal ceremony took place and no license exists.
Fundamental
This word is applied to those laws which are the foundation of society. Those laws by which the exercise of power is restrained and regulated, are fundamental. The Constitution of the United States is the fundamental law of the land.
Justice
Fairness. A state of affairs in which conduct or action is both fair and right, given the circumstances. In law, it more specifically refers to the paramount obligation to ensure that all persons are treated fairly. Litigants "seek justice" by asking for compensation for wrongs committed against them; to right the inequity such that, with the compensation, a wrong has been righted and the balance of "good" or "virtue" over "wrong" or "evil" has been corrected.
Constitution
1) Contracts. The constitution of a contract, is the making of the contract as, the written constitution of a debt. 2) Government. The fundamental law of the state, containing the principles upon which the government is founded, and regulating the divisions of the sovereign powers, directing to what persons each of these powers is to be confided, and the, manner it is to be exercised as, the Constitution of the United States.
Bill
1) Legislation. An instrument drawn or presented by a member or committee to a legislative body for its approbation and enactment. After it has gone through both houses and received the constitutional sanction of the chief magistrate, where such approbation is requisite, it becomes a law. 2) Merchant law. An account containing the items of goods sold, or of work done by one person against another. 3) Contracts. A bill or obligation, is a deed whereby the obligor acknowledges himself to owe unto the obligee a certain sum of money or some other thing, in which, besides the names of the parties, are to be considered the sum or thing due, the time, place, and manner of payment or delivery thereof. It may be indented, or poll, and with or without a penalty.
Customs
This term is usually applied to those taxes which are payable upon goods and merchandise imported or exported.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Public company
Companies are incorporated as either private or public. Public companies require a minimum capital investment and are designed for use as more substantial companies with wide share ownership. They may be listed. Private companies are the category which represents the remainder of companies.
Public debt
That which is due or owing by the government.
Public defender
Government lawyer who provides free legal defense services to a poor person accused of a crime.
Public domain
A term of American copyright law referring to works that are not copyright protected, free for all to use without permission. Examples include works that were originally non-copyrightable (items that by their very nature are not eligible for copyright such as ideas, facts or names), copyright that has been lost or expired, where copyright is owned or authored by the federal government (federal documents and publications are not copyrighted and so are public domain), and those works which have been specifically granted to the public domain.
Public domain or national
National or public domain. All the property which belongs to the state is comprehended under the name of national or public domain.
Public easement
Exists in favor of the people generally.
Public enemy
This word, used in the singular number, designates a nation at war with the United States, and includes every member of such nation.
Public law
A public law is one in which all persons have an interest
Public passage
This term is synonymous with public highway, with this difference; by the latter, is understood a right to pass over the land of another; by the former is meant the right of going over the water which is on another's land.
Public policy
By public policy is meant that which the law encourages for the promotion of the public good.
Public service commission
Also, Public Utilities Commission. A state agency which regulates utilities.
Publican
civil law. A farmer of the public revenue; one who held a lease of some property from the public treasury.
Publication
The act by which a thing is made public.
Publici juris
(United Kingdom) Of public right.
Publiciana
Civil law. The name of an action introduced by the proctor Publicius, the object of which was to recover a thing which had been lost
Publicity
The doing of a thing in the view of all persons who choose to be present.
Publisher
One who does by himself or his agents make a thing publicly known; one engaged in the circulation of books, pamphlets, and other papers.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Public domain
A term of American copyright law referring to works that are not copyright protected, free for all to use without permission. Examples include works that were originally non-copyrightable (items that by their very nature are not eligible for copyright such as ideas, facts or names), copyright that has been lost or expired, where copyright is owned or authored by the federal government (federal documents and publications are not copyrighted and so are public domain), and those works which have been specifically granted to the public domain.
Public domain or national
National or public domain. All the property which belongs to the state is comprehended under the name of national or public domain.
Public easement
Exists in favor of the people generally.
Public enemy
This word, used in the singular number, designates a nation at war with the United States, and includes every member of such nation.
Public law
A public law is one in which all persons have an interest
Public order-public policy
Public passage
This term is synonymous with public highway, with this difference; by the latter, is understood a right to pass over the land of another; by the former is meant the right of going over the water which is on another's land.
Public policy
By public policy is meant that which the law encourages for the promotion of the public good.
Public service commission
Also, Public Utilities Commission. A state agency which regulates utilities.
Publican
civil law. A farmer of the public revenue; one who held a lease of some property from the public treasury.
Publication
The act by which a thing is made public.
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