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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

public wrong

See WRONG.

public wrong.

An offense committed against the state or the community at large, and dealt with in a proceeding to which the state is itself a party. ( Not all public wrongs are crimes. For example, a person that breaches a contract with the government commits a public wrong; but the offense is a civil one, not a criminal one. real wrong. An injury to the freehold.