KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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PUFFER

PUBLICATION

PUBLICIANA. In the civil law. The name of an action introduced by the praetor Publicius, 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, § 298. See Inst 4, 6, 4; Dig. 6, 2, 1, 16. 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; conti nence. PUDZELD. In old English law. Suppos ed to be a corruption of the Saxon "wud 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 nicipality. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit 1, c. 6, 5 4. This term "pueblo," in its original significa tion, means "people" or "population," but is used in the sense of the English word "town." It has the indefiniteness 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. Trenouth v. San Fran cisco, 100 U. S. 251, 25 L. Ed. 626. PUER. 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 parentnm, 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. PUERILITY. In the civil law. A con dition intermediate between infancy and pu berty, 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 own er of property which is sold at auction to attend the sale and run up the price by mak ing spurious bids. See Peck v. List 23 W.

to public notice, or rendering it accessible to public scrutiny. 2. As descriptive of the publishing of laws and ordinances, "publication" means printing or otherwise reproducing copies of them and distributing them in such a manner as to make their contents easily accessible to the public; it forms no part of the enactment of the law. "Promulgation," on the other hand, seems to denote the proclamation or an nouncement of the edict or statute as a pre liminary to its acquiring the force and op eration of law. But the two terms are often used interchangeably. Chicago v. McCoy, 136 111. 344, 26 N. E. 363, 11 L. R. A. 413; Sholes v. State, 2 Pin. (Wis.) 499. 3. The formal declaration made by a testa tor at the time of signing his will that it is his last will and testament. 4 Kent, Coram. 515, and note. In re Simpson, 56 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 134; Compton v. Mitton, 12 N. J. Law, 70; Lewis v. Lewis, 13 Barb. (N. Y.) 2a 4. In the law of libel, publication denotes the act of making the defamatory matter known publicly, of disseminating it, or com municating it to one or more persons. Wil cox v. Moon, 63 Vt 481, 22 Atl. 80; Sproul v. Pillsbury, 72 Me. 20; Gambrill v. Schooley, 93 Md. 48, 48 Atl. 730, 52 L. R. A. 87, 86 Am. St Rep. 414. 5. In the practice of the states adopting the reformed procedure, and in some others, publication of a summons is the process of giving it currency as an advertisement in a newspaper, under the conditions prescribed by law, as a means of giving notice of the suit to a defendant upon whom personal service cannot be made. 6. In equity practice. The making pub lic the depositions taken in a suit, which have previously been kept private in the office of the examiner. Publication is said to pass when the depositions are so made public, or openly shown, and copies of them given out, in order to the hearing of the cause. 3 BL Comm. 450. 7. In copyright law. The act of making public a book, writing, chart, map, etc.; that is, offering or communicating it to the public by the sale or distribution of copies. Keene v. Wheatley, 14 Fed. Cas. 180; Jewelers' Mer cantile Agency v. Jewelers' Weekly Pub. Co., 155 N. Y. 241, 49 N. E. 872, 41 L. R. A. 846, 63 Am. St. Rep. 666. 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 the case of light air, and public water. Sweet Or it designates things which are owned by "the public;" that is, the entire state or community, and not by any private person.