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Comitia

A public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers or passing laws … A public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers or passing laws

Edict

A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority as

a public official who is responsible for the enforcement of laws regarding the hunting of animals … a public official who is responsible for the enforcement of laws regarding the hunting of animals

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Public order

Matched in: Term Public order

Public policy

Matched in: Term Public policy

Marriage

until the passing of the Act. Present Law.--The general purport of the existing law is to require a public ceremony by a clergyman of the Church of England, or by a dissenting minister, or a Roman Catholic

Public meeting

Matched in: Term Public meeting

Tax

the subject; an excise; tallage. A monetary charge imposed by government on persons, entities or properly to yield public revenue, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1469. Some general principles of taxation have been said to be:-

Fraud

without belief in its truth, or (iii) recklessly, careless whether it be true or false. But fraud in public law is not the same as Fraud in private law. Nor can the ingredients which established fraud in commercial … adopting subterfuge or the power may be exercised for extraneous or irrelevant considerations. The colour of fraud in public law or administrative law, as it is developing, is assuming different shades. It aries from a deception committed by

Libel

a libel and not merely a slander, Yossopoff v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture Corporation, 78 Sol Jo 617. As to publication by dictation, etc., to a typist, see Osborn v. Boulter & Son, (1930) 2 KB 226. All contumelious … libel, p. 1. 'Everything printed or written, which reflects on the character of another, and is published without lawful justification or excuse, is a libel whatever the intention may have been', O'Brien v. Clement, (1846) 15 M

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