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Public domain   /pˈəblɪk doʊmˈeɪn/   Listen
Public domain

noun
1.
Property rights that are held by the public at large.





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"Public domain" Quotes from Famous Books



... near thereto as circumstances will admit: and that the states so formed should be distinct republican states, and admitted members of the federal union, having the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other states." If this great public domain, thus dedicated to the whole nation, and under the control of its supreme legislative body, the continental congress, could be filled up with a conglomerate population from all the states, factions and sectional jealousies would disappear, ...
— The Land of the Miamis • Elmore Barce
... earth belongs to the human race and cannot rightfully be trafficked in any more than can the air or the sunlight, but the measures which American reformers have deduced therefrom, namely, land limitation, freedom of the public domain, homestead exemption, &c. During this time he wrote and published in German a history of the United States, as well as a series of translations from the writings of our revolutionary patriots, works of ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 • Various


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