‘Public administration’ and ‘public service’ have fi gured , at least since the Great French Revolution (1789-1793) as the conceptual and categorical framework of public legal reasoning on government administration and administrative law in which it is attempted to differentiate ‘ publiclaw reasoning from private law reasoning’, naturally within ‘Roman-Germanic legal opinion’. In the light of such an approach, ‘public-private’ contract of partnership is analysed as one of the institutions with the elements of ‘public-legality’, therein as opposed to the ordering of ‘public procurement’ and ‘concessionhip’ in a way which is characterised by special types of administrative –legal actions. Denoting some of the most signifi cant but congruous...