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Categories: Property

Definition (1910 Edition)

404, et seg.—Public service. A term applied in modern usage to the objects and enterprises of certain kinds of corporations, which specially serve the needs of the general public or conduce to the comfort and convenience of an entire community, such as railroads, gas, water, and electric light com panies.—Publioc, true, and moterious. The old form by which charges in the allegattons in the ecclesiastical courts were described at the end of each particular.-Public use, in constitutional provisions restricting the exercise of the right to tdke private property in virtue of eminent domain, means a use concerning the wholg community as distinguished from particular individuals. But each and évery member of society need not be equally interested in such ety: or be personally and directly affected by it; i
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain. UK commentary and modern updates are original additions. This entry is for educational reference only and does not constitute legal advice.