governmental purposes

governmental purposes
Imposing punishment for crime, prevention of wrong, the enforcement of a private right, or in some manner preventing wrong from being inflicted upon the public, or upon an individual, or redressing some grievance, or in some way enforcing a legal right, or redressing or preventing a public or individual injury. Owensboro v Commonwealth ex rel. Stone, 105 Ky 344, 49 SW 320. See governmental functions; municipal purpose.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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