Public market

A market which is not only open to the resort of the genera] public as purchasers, but also available to all who wish to offer their wares for sale, stalls, stands, or places being allotted to those who apply, to the limits of the capacity of the market; on payment of fixed rents or fees. See American Live Stock Commission Co. v. Chicago Live Stock Exchange, 148 111. 210, 32 N. E. 274, 18 L. R. A. 190, 36 Am. St. Rep. 385; State v. Fernandez, 39 La. Ann. 538, 2 South. 233; Cincinnati v. Buckingham, 10 Ohio, 257.

Defined under Market in Black's Law Dictionary.