Public act

Acts which concern the ty which his presence would have waived; whole community and of which courts of id. A stockholder is bound by his proxy’s law are bound to take judicial notice. act at a meeting unless he exercises the most A land patent granted by a sister state is active diligence in repudiating the same; a public act. Lassly v. Fontaine, 4 Hen. & Synnott v. Loan Ass’n, 117 Fed. 379, 54 C. C. M. (Va.) 146, 4 Am. Dec. 510. A. 553. See Judicial Notice. As to giving full See Voting Trust; Meeting; Stockholdfaith and credit to the public acts of a state, er; Elections in Corporations. see Foreign Judgments. In Ecclesiastical Law. A judicial proctor, or one who is appointed to manage another PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR. Statutesproman’s law concerns is called" a proxy. Ay- viding for an official to administer upon the liffe, Parerg. property of intestates in certain cases have An annual payment made by the parochial been passed in California and some other clergy to the bishop, etc., on visitations. states. See Rocea v. Thompson, 223 U. S. Tomlins, Law Diet. 317, 32 Sup. Ct. 207, 56 L. Ed. 453. Public In Rhode Island and Connecticut the name Trustee. of an election or day of voting for officers PUBLIC AMUSEMENT. See Place of of government Webst. Diet. Amusement; Theatre; Negligence.

A universal rule or law that regards the whole community, and of which the courts of law are bound to take notice judicially and ex officio without its being particularly pleaded. 1 Bl. Co.mm. 86. See People v. Chautauqua Co.unty, 43 N. Y. 10; Sasser v. Martin. 101 Ga. 447, 29 S. E. 278; Bank of Newberry v. Greenville & C. R. Co.., 9 Rich. Law (S. C.) 496; People v. Bellet, 99 Mich. 151, 57 N. W. 1094, 22 L. Rt A. 696, 41 Am. St. Rep. 589; Holt v. Birmingham, ill Ala. 369, 19 South. 736.

Defined under Act in Black's Law Dictionary.

-^.Private act. Public corporation: v. Corporation. Public la^w: the law as between the subject and the sovereign or state; criminal law; v. International law. Public nuisance: one affecting an indefinite number of persons, not the owner of a particular lot of land; v. Nuisance.