A law affecting the public at large WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Public law is the part of law that governs relations between legal persons and a government, between different institutions within a state, between different branches of governments, as well as relationships between persons that are of direct concern to society. Wikipedia

Area of law concerned with relationship between the state and the citizen. Wikipedia Disambiguation

Branch of law involving relationships between individuals and the state, or the functioning of the state itself Wikidata

The branch of law which governs relationships between individuals and the government. OmegaWiki

A category of law governing the relationship between the state on one hand and persons (citizens or legal persons including corporations) on the other. Constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law are some of the major subdivisions of public law. Wiktionary

Law. Wiktionary (translation)