public welfare

public welfare
A variety of interests, spiritual, monetary, physical and aesthetic. The primary social interests of safety, order, and morals. That condition of the public in which it best enjoys the advantages of life as offered by nature to which man must and has oriented himself. 16 Am J2d Const L § 307. See general welfare.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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