Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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PUEBLO

PUNITIVE DAMAGES

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 nicipality. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 1, o. 6, § 4. This term "pueblo, " in its original signification, means "people " or "population," but is used in the sense of the English word "town." It has the in definiteness of that term, and, like it, is sometimes applied to a mere collection of individuals residing at a particular place, a settlement or village, as well as to a regularly organized municipality. 100 U. S. 851. PUEB. Lat. In the civil law. A child; one of the age from seven to fourteen, in cluding, in this sense, a girl. But it also meant a "boy," as distinguished from a "girl;" or a servant. Pueri sunt de sanguine parentum, sed pater et mater non sunt de sanguine puerorum. 3 Coke, 40. Children are of the blood of their parents, but the father and mother are not of the blood of the children. PUEBILITY. 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. PUEBITIA. Lat. In the civil law. Childhood; the age from seven to fourteen. 4 Bl. Comm. 22. PUFFEB. A person employed by the owner of property which is sold at auction to attend the sale and run up the price by mak ing spurious bids. PUIS. In law French. Afterwards; since. PUIS DABBEIN CONTINUANCE. L. Fr. 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 is sue joined; such as payment, a release by the plaintiff, the discharge of the defendant un der an insolvent or bankrupt law, and the like. 3 Bl. Comm. 316; 2 Tidd, Pr. 847. PUISNE. L. Fr. Younger; subordi nate; associate. The title by which the justices and barons of the several common-law courts at West minster are distinguished from the chiqf jus tice and chief baron. PUISSANCE PATEBNELLE. Fr. Paternal power. In the French law, the

male parent has the following rights over the person of his child: (1) If child is un der sixteen years of age, he may procure him to be imprisoned for one month or un der. (2) If child is over sixteen and under twenty-one he may procure an imprison ment for six months or under, with power in each case to procure a second period of im prisonment. The female parent, being a widow, may, with the approval of the two nearest relations on the father's side, do the like. The parent enjoys also the following rights over the property of his child, viz., a right to take the income until the child at tains the age of eighteen years, subject to maintaining the child and educating him in a suitable manner. Brown. PULSABE. In the civil law. To beat; to accuse or charge; to proceed against at law. Calvin. PULSATOB. 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, semi colons, colons, etc. PUNCTUM TEMPOBIS. Lat. A point of time; an indivisible period of time; the shortest space of time; an instant. Calvin. PUNCTUBED WOUND. In medical jurisprudence. A wound made by the inser tion into the body of any instrument having a sharp point. The term is practically syn onymous with "stab." PUNDBBECH. 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 Hindu law; a learned Brahmin. PUNISHABLE. Liable to punishment, whether absolutely or in the exercise of a ju dicial discretion. PUNISHMENT. In criminal law. Any pain, penalty, suffering, or confinement in flicted 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. PUNITIVE DAMAGES. In practice. Damages given by way of punishment; ex emplary or vindictive damages. 13 How 371: 2 Mete. (Ky.) 146.

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