Extracted From:
  A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856
  by John Bouvier
  CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA

PROMULGATION. The order given to cause a law to be executed, and to make it
public it differs from publication....
   With regard to trade, unless previous notice can be brought home to the party
charged with violating their provisions, laws are to be considered as beginning
to operate in the respective collection districts only from the time they are
received from the proper department by the collector....


PUBLICATION. The act by which a thing is made public. 
   It differs from promulgation....   Publication has different meanings. 

When applied to a law, it signifies the rendering public the existence of the
law; 

when it relates to the opening the depositions taken in a case in chancery, it
means that liberty is given to the officer in whose custody the depositions of
witnesses in a cause are lodged, either by consent of parties, or by the rules
or orders of the court, to show the depositions openly, and to give out copies
of them.... 

When it refers to a libel, it is its communication to a second or third person,
or a greater number.... 

And when spoken of a will, it signifies that the testator has done some act from
which it can be concluded that he intended the instrument to operate as his
will....

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