Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Puis
[French] Afterwards; since.
Puisne
adj. [Law French] Junior in rank; subordinate.
mulier puisne
[Law Latin] Hist. The younger lawful son, usu. distinguished from the bastard eigne ("the elder bastard son"). "The common law developed one exception to its harsh doctrine of bastardy. Where the eldest son was born out of wedlock (the bastard eigne) and the next son was born to the same parents after the marriage (the mulier puisne), and upon the ancestor's death the bastard eigne entered as heir and remained in undisturbed possession until his own death, the bastard eigne was treated as if he had been legitimate with respect to the inheritance of that land. The reason given by Littleton was that a person who was legitimate by the Canon law could not be bastardised posthumously, when he no longer had the opportunity to contest the issue." J.H Baker, An Introduction. to English Legal History 559 (3d ed. 1990).
plea puis darrein continuance
[Law French "plea since the last continuance"] A plea that alleges new defensive matter that has arisen during a continuance of the case and that did not exist at the time of the defendant's last pleading.
puis darrein continuance
[Law French "since the last continuance"] See plea puis darrein continuance under PLEA (3).
puisne judge
[Law French puisne "later born"] 1. A junior judge; a judge without distinction or title. ( This was the title formerly used in English commonlaw courts for a judge other than the chief judge. Today puisne judge refers to any judge of the English High Court, apart from the Chief Justice. 2. See associate judge.
puisne mortgage
See junior mortgage under MORTGAGE.