Publication

1.

The act of publishing anything or making it public; offering it to publlc notice, or rendering it accessible to public scrutiny.

2.

As descriptive of the publishing of laws and ordinances, "publication" means printing or otherwise reproducing cepies of them and distributing them in such a manner as to make their contents easily accessible to the public; it forms no part of the enactment of the law. "Promulgation," on the other hand, seems to denote the proclamation or announcement of the edict or statute as a preliminary to its acquiring the force and operation of law. But the two terms are often used interchangeably.

Chicago v. McCo.y, 136 III. 344, 26 N. E. 363, 11 h. R. A. 413 ; Sholes v. State, 2 Pin. (Wist) 499. 3.

The formal declaration made by a testator at the time of signing his will that it is his last will and testament. 4 Kent, Comin. 515, and note. In re Simpson.

56 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 134; Compton v. Mitton, 12 N. J. Law, 70; Lewis v. Lewis, 13 Barb. (N. Y.) 23. 4.

In the law of libel, publication denotes the act of making the defamatory matter known publicly, of disseminating it, or communicating it to one or more persons.

Wilcox v. Moon, 63 Vt 481, 22 Atl. 80; Sprout v. Pillsbury, 72 Me. 20; Gambrill v. Schooley, 93 Md. 48, 48 Atl. 730, 52 In R. A. 87, 86 Am. St Rep. 414. 5.

In the practice of the states adopting the reformed procedure, and in some others, publication of a summons is the process of giving it currency as an advertisement in a newspaper, under the conditions prescribed by law, as a means of giving notice of the suit to a defendant upon whom personal service cannot be made.

6.

In equity practice

The making publlc the depositions taken in a suit, which have previously bcen kept private in the office of the examiner. Publication is said to pass when the depositions are so made public, or openly shown, and copies of them given out, in order to the hearing of the cause.

3 BL Comm. 450. 7.

In copyright law. The act of making public a book, writing, chart, map, etc.; that is, offering or communicating it to the public by the sale or distribution of copies.

Keene v. Wheatley, 14 Fed. Cas. 180; Jewelers' Mercantile Agency v. Jewelers' Weekly Pub. Co., 155 N. Y. 241, 49 N. E. 872, 41 L. R. A. 846, 63 Am. St. Rep. 666.