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Puisne [fr. puisne Fr.], junior, inferior, lower in rank. The several judges and barons of the former Common Law Courts to Westminster, other than the chiefs, were called puisne. By s. 5 of the (English) Judicature Act, 1877, a puisne judge of the High Court means, for the purposes of that Act, a judge of the High Court other than the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of England, and their successors respectively. Puisne judges of the High Court shall be styled Justices of the High Court [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 2 (4)]. The term is also used as meaning later for subsequent with reference to mortgagees and the like, e.g., puisne mortgagees....
Puisne mortgage
Puisne mortgage. In the legal phraseology which was used before 1926 meant a mortgage sub-sequent to the mortgage of a legal estate, but for the purposes of the Land Charges Act, 1925, s. 10 (1) (Class C.), it is enacted that 'puisne mortgage' means any legal mortgage (including the first) of a legal estate not being a mortgage protected by a deposit of documents relating to the legal estate affected and (if the whole of the land affected is within the jurisdiction of a local deeds registry) not registered there. These mortgages, if created after 1925, must be registered at the Land Charges Registry, Red Lion Square, or they will lose priority; see, further, MORTGAGE CHARGE. Mortgages created before 1926 may be registered before transfer. This amounts to notice, but even this notice will not prevent tacking on further advances by a prior mortgagee if that mortgagee has not seen the register at the date of the first advance or has no other actual or direct notice. See TACKING.Under the ...
Mulier puisne
Mulier puisne. When a man has a bastard son, and afterwards marries the mother, and by her has also a legitimate son, the elder son is bastard eigne and the younger son is mulier puisne. See 2 Bl. Com. 248....
Kings Bench
Formerly the highest court of common law in England so called because the king used to sit there in person It consisted of a chief justice and four puisne or junior justices During the reign of a queen it was called the Queens Bench Its jurisdiction was transferred by the judicature acts of 1873 and 1875 to the high court of justice created by that legislation...
Puisne
Later in age time etc subsequent...
Puisny
Puisne younger inferior petty unskilled...
Appeal, Court of (U.K.)
Appeal, Court of (U.K.), this Court, which was constituted under the Judicature Act, 1873, the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876, and the Judicature Act,1881, has, by Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, s. 26, vested in it the appellate jurisdiction and powers of the Lord Chancellor and of the Court of Appeal in Chancery, and of the same Court as the Court of Appeal in Bankruptcy and from the County Palatine of Lancaster; of the Exchequer Chamber; and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in appeals in Admiralty causes other than in the Prize Court, or in matters of lunacy. The Court (which usually sits in two divisions) consists of (ex officio) the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Master of the Rolls, and five Lords Justices.The Judges may not sit on appeal from judgments to which they themselves were parties.A puisne judge is occasionally summoned to sit as an additional judge (s. 7).An appeal to this Court lies as of right from any order or judgment ...
Australia, Commonwealth of.
Australia, Commonwealth of. The association of the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania, and Western Australia in a federal Commonwealth comprising also Papua, the Northern Territory, and Norfolk, Ashmore and Cantier Island in the Pacific (and see MANDATED TERRITORIES), with a Constitution enabling its Parliament, consisting of the Sovereign of the British Empire, a Senate, and a House of Representatives, to legislate for the whole of Australia. The legislative powers of the Parliament, which may be found under 39 heads in the 51st paragraph of the Constitution, extend to trade, taxation, defence, coinage, bankruptcy, copyright, marriage, 'the people of any race other than certain aborigines,' immigrants and emigration, 'external affairs,' railway construction, and other matters too numerous to particularize; see Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, 1900 (Imperial, 63 & 64 Vict. c. 12); A.-G. for Commonwealth of Australia v. Colonial Sugar R...
Bastard Eigne
Bastard Eigne, an elder son born before marriage; thus if a man had a natural son, and afterwards married the mother and by her had a legitimate son, the latter was mulier puisne, and the elder son bastard eigne, Watk. Descent. C. v. See Legitimacy Act, 1926 (c. 60) and LEGITIMATION....
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the presiding judge in the court of Common Pleas, and afterwards in the Common Pleas Division of the High Court of Justice, and one of the ex-officio judges of the High Court of appeal (English) (Jud. Act, 1873, s. 5, and Jud. Act, 1875, s. 4). He had five (formerly four, until 31 & 32 Vict. c.125, see s. 11) puisne judge associated with him. In 1881, after the promotion of Lord Chief Justice Coleridge to the office of Lord Chief Justice of England, the office was abolished by Order in Council under s. 31 of the (English) Jud. Act, 1873, and merged in that of Lord Chief Justice of England....
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