Public place
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Case Law, Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)
Definitions from Case Law
From 527 U.S. 41 - City of Chicago v. Morales · 1999Most cited · 2,315 citing opinions
the public way and any other location open to the public, whether publicly or privately owned.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Any place so situated that what passes there can be seen by any considerable number of persons, if they happen to look. Steph. Cr. L. 115. Under a statute against gaming, a steamboat carrying passengers and freight is a public place; Coleman v. State, 33 Ala. 602; so Is an infirmary; Flake v. State, 19 id. 551; so is a shoemaker’s shop into which many went, but a few were excluded during the gaining; Campbell v. State, 17 id. 369; but a secluded place on a mountain, some distance from a roadway and in a dense thicket, is not; Gerrells v. State (Tex.) 26 S. W. 394. Under statutes against indecent exposure, a public omnibus is a public place; 3 C. & K. 360; so is a urinal in a public park; L. R. 1 C. <3. 282; and a part of the sea beach, visible from inhabited houses; 2 Campb. 89. See many cases cited in 22 Alb. L. J. 24, and Abb. Diet See Public House; Place,
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A place to which the general public has a right to resort; not necessarily a place devoted solely to the uses of the public, but a place which is in point of fact public rather than private, a place visited by many persons and usually accessible to the public. See Slate v. Welch, 88 Ind. 310; Gom-precht v. State, 36 Tex. Cr. R. 434, 37 S. W. 734; Russell v. Dyer, 40 N. H. 187; Roach v. Eugene, 23 Or. 376, 31 Pac. 825; Taylor v. State, 22 Ala. 15.
Defined under Public in Black's Law Dictionary.