public law

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   a law affecting the public at large

   Broaderlaw

   law

Questions about public law

What does public law mean?

public law means "a law affecting the public at large".

Is public law a common word?

public law is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.