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  • 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...
  • PULSARE
    Lat In the civil law. To beat; to accuse or charge; to proceed against at law. Calvin.
  • PULSATOR
    The plaintiff, or actor.
  • PUNCTUATION
    The division of a written or printed document into sentences by means of periods; and of sentences into smaller divisions by means of commas, semicolons, colons, etc.
  • PUNCTUM TEMPORIS
    Lat. A point of time; an indivisible period of time; the shortest space of time; an instant Calvin.
  • PUNCTURED WOUND
    In medical jurisprudence. A wound made by the insertion into the body of any instrument having a sharp point The term is practically synonymous with "stab."
  • PUNDBRECH
    In old English law. Pound-breach; the offense of breaking a pound. The illegal taking of cattle out of a pound by any means whatsoever. Cowell.
  • PUNDIT
    An interpreter of the Hindn law; a learned Brahmin.
  • PUNISHABLE
    Liable to punishment whether absolutely or in the exercise of a judicial discretion.
  • PUNISHMENT
    In criminal law. Any pain, penalty, suffering, or confinement inflicted upon a person by the authority of the law and the judgment and sentence of a court, for some crime or offense committed by him, or for his omission of a duty enjoined by law. See Cummings v. Missouri, 4 More...
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