Public Character
Defined in 1 dictionary — Bouvier (1914)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
An individual a special body of such persons acting as magwho asks for and desires public recognition. istrates or judges. Black Book of Adm. IV, A statesman, author, artist, or inventor who 180. There were prudhommes of the sea; does so may be said to have surrendered his of merchants; of the corporation of Barceright of protection against the publication lona; and of the gild of coopers. Usually of his portrait; Corliss v. E. W. Walker Co., two sat. See, generally, id. III. 64 Fed. 280, 31 L. R. A. 283. See Injunc-