public lawin a sentence
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Criminal law is an area of public law.
public law = branch of law dealing with the legal relationships between the government and individuals and with the relations among governmental agencies
- Since 1957, U.S. Laws have been designated as public law or private law.
- The austere commander of the Swiss Guard was a man for whom few public law enforcement officials had any affection.† (source)
- 1952 June: Congress passes Public Law 414, granting Japanese aliens the right to become naturalized U.S. citizens.† (source)
- Not a single public law bears his name, not a single history book includes his picture, not a single list of Senate "greats" men-tions his service.† (source)
- It comes out fifty years after Congress passed public law 514 in 1952, which overturned restrictive federal policies, finally making it possible for immigrants of Asian ancestry —like Ko — to naturalize as U.S. citizens.† (source)
- In the new public law courts he disliked the restrictions laid on the lawyers conducting cases.† (source)
- You are too well acquainted with the principles of public law, humanity, and justice not to pardon us.† (source)