public market

A place designated by municipal authority for the sale of articles necessary or convenient for the subsistence of men and domestic animals. 35 Am J1st Mark & M § 2. Any market open to the public. "It may well be doubted whether the term `public market' is one which is known to our law. Markets overt, such as exist in England, are unknown here; nor is it usual in this country to grant to private parties the franchise or liberty of keeping or holding a fair or market, as is done in England. Our statute authorizes municipal corporations to establish markets and market houses, and to provide for the regulation and use thereof. But we are not aware that any class of markets in this country, not established by municipal authority, or by virtue of a market franchise granted by the state, has been held, merely because of the magnitude of the business carried on therein, to be impressed with a public use, so as to be held by the courts to be public markets, in that sense." American Livestock Com. Co. v Chicago Live Stock Exchange, 143 Ill 210, 32 NE 274. See market.