Publication : (noun)
1: a copy of a printed work offered for distribution
2: the act of issuing printed materials [syn: issue]
3: the business of publishing [syn: publishing]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Publication : \Pub`li*ca"tion\, n. [L. publicatio confiscation:
cf. F. publication. See Publish.]
1. The act of publishing or making known; notification to the
people at large, either by words, writing, or printing;
proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the
publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of
the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.
2. The act of offering a book, pamphlet, engraving, etc., to
the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution.
The publication of these papers was not owing to our
folly, but that of others. --Swift.
3. That which is published or made known; especially, any
book, pamphlet, etc., offered for sale or to public
notice; as, a daily or monthly publication.
4. An act done in public. [R. & Obs.]
His jealousy . . . attends the business, the
recreations, the publications, and retirements of
every man. --Jer. Taylor.
Publication of a libel (Law), such an exhibition of a libel
as brings it to the notice of at least one person other
than the person libeled.
Publication of a will (Law), the delivery of a will, as his
own, by a testator to witnesses who attest it.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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PUBLICATION. The act by which a thing is made public.
2. It differs from promulgation, (q.v.) and see also Toullier, Dr. Civ.
Fr. Titre Preliminaire, n. 59, for the difference in the meaning of these
two words.
3.Publication : has different meanings. When applied to a law, it
signifies the rendering public the existence of the law; when it relates to
the opening the depositions taken in a case in chancery, it means that
liberty is given to the officer in whose custody the depositions of
witnesses in a cause are lodged, either by consent of parties, or by the
rules or orders of the court, to show the depositions openly, and to give
out copies of them. Pract. Reg. 297; 1 Harr. Ch. Pr. 345; Blake's Ch. Pr.
143. When it refers to a libel, it is its communication to a second or third
person, or a greater number. Holt on Libels, 254, 255, 290; Stark. on
Slander, 350; Holt's N. P. Rep. 299; 2 Bl. R. 1038; 1 Saund. 112, n. 3. And
when spoken of a will, it signifies that the testator has done some act from
which it can be concluded that he intended the instrument to operate as his
will. Cruise, Dig. tit. 38, c. 5, s. 47; 3 Atk. 161; 4 Greenl. R. 220; 3
Rawle, R. 15; Com. Dig. Estates by devise, E 2. Vide Com. Dig. Chancery, Q;
Id. Libel, B 1; Ibid. Action upon the case for defamation, G 4; Roscoe's Cr.
Ev. 529; Bac. Ab. Libel, B; Hawk. P. C. B. 1, c. 73, s. 10; 3 Yeates' R.
128; 10 Johns. R. 442. As to the publication of an award, see 6 N. H. Rep.
36. See, generally, Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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