PUBLIC

Pertaining to a state, nation, or whole community; proceeding from, relating to, or atrecting the whole body of people or an entire community. Open to all; notorious. Common to all or many; general ; open to common use. Morgan v. Gree, 46 Vt. 786, 14 Am. Rep. 640; Crane v. Waters (C. C.) 10 Fed. 621; Austin v. Soule, 36 Vt. 650; Appeal of Eliot, 74 Conn. 586, 51 Atl. 558; O’Hara v. Miller, 1 Kulp (Pa.) 295. A distinction has been made between the terms “public” and “general.” They are sometimes used as synonymous. The former term is applied strictly to that which concerns all the, citizens and every member of the state; while the latter includes a lesser, though still a large, portion of the community. 1 Greenl. Ev.