Private act
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
statute. A statute affecting which the courts are not bound to take notice. poration: V.
Corporation
Private law: between subject and subject; v.
Public law
Private nuisance: a nuisance affecting a estate; v.
Nuisance
Privatum commodum publico cedit, or modum publico bono pensatur, /. yield to pubhc; or, the private inconvenience public good. Privatorum pacta, etc.: v.