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  • 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...
  • PUNITIVE
    Relating to punishment; having the character of punishment or penalty ; inflicting punishment or a penalty. -Punitive damages. See DAMAGES.-Punitive power. The power and authority of a state, or organized jural society, to inflict punishments upon those persons who have committed actions inherently evil and injurious to the public, or More...
  • PUPIL
    In the civil law. One who Is In his or her minority. Particularly, one who is in ward or guardianship.
  • PUPILLARIS SUBSTITUTIO.
    Lat In the civil law. Puplllar substitution; the substitution of an heir to a pupil or infant under puberty. The substitution by a father of an heir to his children under his power, disposing of his own estate and theirs, in case the child refused to accept the inheritance, or More...
  • PUPILLARITY
    In Scotch law. That period of minority from the birth to the age of fourteen in males, and twelve in females. Bell.
  • PUPILLUS
    Lat. In the civil law. A ward or infant under the age of puberty; a person under the authority of a tutor, (c. t>.). Pupulus pati posse non intelligitnr. A pupil or infant is not supposed to be able to suffer, i. e., to do an act to his own More...
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