public company
Defined in 3 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)
United States Code
12 U.S.C. § 5903 — in this section
The term “public company” means an issuer that is required to file reports under section 78m(a) or 78o(d) of title 15.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A term used in the English law for an open corporation. "What a 'public company' is has not been defined, but one test is whether the members have a right to transfer their shares." Buckl. 3; 12 Ch. Div. 655.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In English law. A business corporation; a society of persons joined together for carrying on some commercial or industrial undertaking.
Defined under Company in Black's Law Dictionary.