public worship

public worship
Church services. Worship conducted by religious societies constituted according to their own notions of ecclesiastical authority and ritual propriety, opening their places of worship and admitting to their religious services such persons and upon such terms and subject to such regulations as they may choose to designate and establish.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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