Dedication
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In real property law. An appropriation of Innid to some public use, mate by the owner, and accepted for such use by or on behalf of the public.
23 Wis. 416; d3 N. J. Law, 13.
A deliberate appropriation of land by its owner for any general and public uses, reserving to himself no other righis than such a8 are perfectly compatible with the full exercise and enjoyment of the public uses to which he has devoted his property.
22 Wend. 472.
In copyright law. The first publication of a work, without baving secured a copyright, is a dedication of it to the public; that having been done, any one may republish it.
6 Mc Lean, 82; 7 West. Law J. 49; 5 Mc- Lean, 328.