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  • PUBLICI JURIS
    Lat Of public right This term, as applied to a thing or right means that it is open to or exercisable by all persons. When a thing is common property, so that any one can make use of it who likes, it is said to be "publici juris;" as In More...
  • PUBLICANA
    In tbe civil law. The name of an action introduced by the pnetor Publiclus, the object of which was to recover a thing which had been lost Its effects were similar to those of our action of trover. Mackeld. Rom. Law, J 298. See Inst. 4, 6, 4; Dig. 6, More...
  • PUBLICIST
    One versed in, or writing upon, public law, the science and principles of government, or international law.
  • PUBLICUM JUS
    Lat. In the civil law. Public law; that law which regards the state of the commonwealth. Inst 1, 1, 4.
  • PUBLISHER
    One whose business is the manufacture, promulgation, and sale of books, pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, or other literary productions.
  • 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.
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