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Puisne   Listen
adjective
Puisne  adj.  
1.
Later in age, time, etc.; subsequent. (Obs.) " A puisne date to eternity."
2.
Puny; petty; unskilled. (Obs.)
3.
(Law) Younger or inferior in rank; junior; associate; as, a chief justice and three puisne justices of the Court of Common Pleas; the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer.





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"Puisne" Quotes from Famous Books



... Supreme Court of Appeal; High Court, chief justice appointed by the president, puisne judges appointed on the advice of the Judicial Service ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... child; a weak little child. A puny stomach; a weak stomach. Puny, or puisne judge; the ...
— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.
... an hour after entered the Captain, followed by divers of the Queen's Guard, with partisans. After them came many gentlemen of the Queen's servants, uncovered, with swords by their sides and well clad, two and two together. After them came the Ricks-Senators in their order, the puisne first. After them the Ricks-officers, all bare. After them came the Queen, and kept off her hat in the hall, some of the officers of the Court and pages after her. In this order they went up in the ...
— A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. • Bulstrode Whitelocke
... 'the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.' I suppose no one will say that the bishops are the greatest men in the Church of England, or that every Chief Justice is a greater man than every puisne judge. Success is especially arbitrary in cases where it goes by pure patronage: in many such cases the patron would smile at your weakness if you fancied that the desire to find the best man ever entered his head. In the ...
— The Recreations of A Country Parson • A. K. H. Boyd


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