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Example sentences for "puisne"

Lexicographically close words:
pugnare; pugnis; pugs; puir; puis; puisque; puissance; puissant; puissante; puissaunce
  1. Nay, then, I see thou'rt but a puisne In the subtle mystery of a woman.

  2. But Sir William Jones (the senior puisne judge) said the patent ought to have been read before he came up to the bench.

  3. At the Restoration, he was made a puisne judge of the Common Pleas, and, acting under Chief Justice Bridgman, he acquitted himself creditably.

  4. Our puisne judge I have nothing to say against; he is a very honest man, for aught I know; but I cannot be silent as to our chief judge; and I will name him, because what I have to say will appear more probable.

  5. Being made chief justice of Chester, he thought that all puisne judges were beneath him, and he would not behave to them with decent respect, even when practising before them.

  6. Jeffreys began with interfering very offensively in the appointment of puisne judges, which of right belonged to the lord keeper.

  7. The royal authority being reestablished by the victory at Evesham, he resumed his functions as a puisne judge; and for two years more there are entries proving that he continued to act in that capacity.

  8. The Court of Common Pleas was now also organized like the King's Bench, with a chief justice and three or four puisne judges.

  9. The old gentleman was imperfectly consoled with the place of puisne judge of the Common Pleas, which, in the reign of James II.

  10. The chief justice having had the satisfaction of pronouncing with his own lips the sentence upon Sydney, of death and mutilation, instead of leaving the task as usual to the senior puisne judge, a scene followed which is familiar to every one.

  11. That there might be one judge to be relied upon, who might be put into commissions of oyer and terminer, Billing was made a puisne justice of the Court of King's Bench.

  12. He had not the courage to show himself in the presence of the man to whom he owed every thing; and Shelley, a puisne judge, was deputed to make the proposal to him in the king's name.

  13. The position of a Puisne Judge is a high and honourable one, such as no lawyer, however eminent, need disdain to accept.

  14. He was also associated with the late Robert Easton Burns, one of the Puisne Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, and the Hon.

  15. Mr. Galt was appointed to his present position, that of a Puisne Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Ontario, on the death of the late Judge John Wilson, in 1869.

  16. Matthew Crooks Cameron, who sat in the Local Legislature of Ontario for East Toronto, was appointed to a Puisne Judgeship of the Court of Queen's Bench.

  17. His rank is that of Senior Puisne Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench.

  18. On the 11th of the month he was elevated to a seat on the Judicial Bench as a Puisne Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench for Upper Canada.

  19. The last named gentleman was one of the most eminent lawyers in his native Province, and became a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the Dominion upon its formation in 1875.

  20. In the month of January, 1851, he retired from the Administration, and accepted a seat on the Judicial Bench, as a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick.

  21. It was meanwhile desirable that a puisne judge of the Court of King's Bench for Upper Canada should be appointed without delay, and that position was offered to Mr. Willis.

  22. Chief Justice and the two puisne Justices--were present.

  23. A vacancy was thus created on the bench, which was filled on the 2nd of July by the appointment of Christopher Alexander Hagerman to a puisne judgeship.

  24. The first conspicuous victim of whom any record has been preserved was Mr. Robert Thorpe, an English barrister of much learning and acumen, who in 1805 was appointed a puisne judge of the Court of King's Bench for Upper Canada.

  25. He was a son of the Honourable Levius Petere Sherwood, one of the puisne judges, and was also connected with other leading members of the ruling faction.

  26. The Court of King's Bench was thus left with only the two puisne judges, who accordingly presided by themselves during the following Easter Term.

  27. It was upon his retirement from that position that he was made puisne judge, continuing upon the bench for twenty-seven years thereafter.

  28. Louis Tellier, puisne judge of the superior court of the province of Quebec.

  29. The entire abolition of the actual courts of civil and criminal jurisdiction; 2dly, The creation in their stead of one supreme court, consisting of a chief justice and three puisne judges; 3dly.

  30. At the same period, the salary of a puisne judge was but £1000 a year--a sum that would have been altogether insufficient for his expenses.

  31. The puisne of the House of Lords at that time was John Hervey, created Baron and Peer in 1703, from whom is descended the Marquis of Bristol.

  32. In the House of Lords they vote one by one, beginning with the junior, called the puisne baron.

  33. Each of these courts consists of a judge-president and two puisne judges.

  34. This court is presided over by a chief justice, with five puisne judges, and has appellate civil and criminal jurisdiction for the Dominion.

  35. In 1834 he was transferred from that Court to a puisne judgeship in the Court of Exchequer, where for many years he was second to Baron Parke.

  36. In 1830, though still wearing the stuff gown, he was promoted an additional puisne judge in the Court of Common Pleas, and received the honour of knighthood.

  37. James Macartney became second puisne Justice of the King's Bench in 1701, puisne Justice of Common Pleas (vice A.

  38. Anthony Upton became puisne Justice of Common Pleas, was succeeded as above, and committed suicide in 1718.

  39. They wanted to get some puisne judge to resign, and to put Horne on the Bench, but they could not make any such arrangement, so Horne is Attorney.

  40. The latter is the best of the puisne judges, and might have been selected if all political considerations and political connexions had been disregarded.

  41. The three other barristers were puisne judges.

  42. There were but three Judges of the King's Bench, in the country, the Chief Justice Campbell and two Puisne Judges.

  43. Weldon, who had been a long time a member of former legislatures, and was at one time Speaker, was appointed to the puisne judgeship, and the Hon.

  44. They thought that as attorney-general he was entitled to the position of chief-justice, and that in consenting to take the puisne judgeship he had lowered himself.

  45. Allen, his attorney-general, was appointed to the bench as a puisne judge, while the Hon.

  46. Ward Chipman was appointed chief-justice in place of Mr. Saunders, and the vacant puisne judgeship was given to James Carter, who afterwards became chief-justice of the province.

  47. The judges of this court were one chief and four puisne barons, so styled.

  48. He was dismissed together with Montague, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and two puisne Judges, Neville and Charlton.

  49. Heathfield applied to one of the puisne judges for a postponement, on the ground that a principal witness could not attend.

  50. In the Chief Court of Lower Burma, with which we are immediately concerned, in forensic business the Chief Judge has no more weight or authority than any of his puisne brothers.

  51. As puisne Judges, barristers would be sent from England.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puisne" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    after; attendant; consecutive; ensuing; following; junior; later; lineal; posterior; subsequent; succeeding; successive