Preferred term
PUBLIC LAW
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Scope note
- The branch of law concerned with the State in its political or sovereign capacity and with the definition, regulation and enforcement of rights in cases where the State is regarded as the subject of the right or object of the duty. In another sense it is the laws or statutes that apply to the people of a nation enacting it
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URI
http://metadata.un.org/thesaurus/1005257