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  • PUDICITY
    Chastity; purity; continence.
  • PUDZELD
    In old English law. Supposed to be a corruption of the Saxon "umd-geld," (woodgeld,) a freedom from payment of money for taking wood in any forest Co. Litt 233a.
  • PUEBLO
    In Spanish law. People; all the inhabitants of any country or place, with* out distinction. A town, township, or mu-> niclpallty. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit 1, c. 6, * 4. This term "pueblo." in its original signification, means "people' or "population," butv is used in the sense of More...
  • PUER
    Lat In the civil law. A child; one of the age from seven to fourteen, including, in this sense, a girl. But it also meant a "boy," as distinguished from a "girl;" or a servant -- Pneri snnt de sanguine parentnm, sed pater et mater non snnt de sanguine pnoromm. More...
  • PUERILITY
    In the civil law. A condition intermediate between infancy and puberty, continuing in boys from the seventh to the fourteenth year of their age, and in girls from seven to twelve.
  • PUERITIA
    Lat In the civil law. Childhood; the age from seven to fourteen. 4 Bl. Comm. 22.
  • PUFFER
    A person employed by the owner of -property which is sold at auction to attend the sale and run up the price by making spurious bids. See Peck v. List 23 W> Va. 375, 48 Am. Rep. 398; McMillan v. Harris, 110 Ga. 72, 35 S. E. 334, 48 L. More...
  • PUIS
    In law French. Afterwards; since. -Puis darrein oontinnanoe. Since the last continuance. The name of a plea which a defendant is allowed to put in, after having already pleaded, where some new matter of defense arises after issue joined; such as payment, a release by the plaintiff, the discharge of More...
  • PUISNE
    L. Fr. Younger; subordinate 5 associate. The title by which the justices and barons of the several common-law courts at Westminster are distinguished from the chief jus-' tlce and chief baron.
  • PUISSANCE PATERNELLE
    Fr. Paternal power. In the French law, the male parent has the following rights over the person of his child: (1) If child is under sixteen years of age, he may procure him to be imprisoned for one month or under. (2) If child is over sixteen and under twenty-one More...
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