The public
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the public · al-shaʻb · mankind at large · strangers · the people
in the texts
The Law of Intellectual Property
The general body of people described in the reasonable-compensation theory as the true owner of inventions.
It asserts that the invention really belongs to the public, and not to himself.
And if the property have no rightful owner, it perhaps ought to go to the public, and to the government as the representative of, and trustee for, the public.
Although men sometimes will that, at their death, their property shall go to others than their nearest relatives, it is nevertheless nearly or quite an unheard of event, that a man should wish his property to go to mankind at large, in preference to his immediate friends.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The populace, distinguished from the learned, whose favour the sayings warn against seeking.
32 — If you want favour with the people by bettering your state in your person, your wealth and your house, then you have wearied yourself without being aware of it, for the people will not deal justly with you.
6 — If you want the sciences for the people, a little will suffice you.
The Genius of the Common Law
The general populace whose clamour is credited (with irony) as the cause of the establishment of the small-claims courts.
In consequence of an idle and absurd clamour on the part of the public, some inferior courts were established a short time back to enable the common people to sue for small debts and damages under twenty pounds;