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Pudicity






Pudicity

Chastity; the abstaining from all unlawful carnal commerce or connexion. A married woman or a widow may defend her pudicity as a maid may her virginity.

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Unlawful
That which is contrary to law.

Commerce
Latin commercium. In its simplest signification, an exchange of goods; but in the advancement of society, labor, transportation, itelligence, care and various mediums of exchange, become commodities and enter into commerce. Gibbens v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1, 229 (1824), Marshall, Chief Justice. The interchange or mutual change of goods, productions, or property of any kind, between nations or individuals.

Widow
An unmarried woman whose husband is dead.

Pudicity
Chastity; the abstaining from all unlawful carnal commerce or connexion. A married woman or a widow may defend her pudicity as a maid may her virginity.



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The act by which a thing is made public.

Publici juris
(United Kingdom) Of public right.

Publiciana
Civil law. The name of an action introduced by the proctor Publicius, the object of which was to recover a thing which had been lost

Publicity
The doing of a thing in the view of all persons who choose to be present.

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One who does by himself or his agents make a thing publicly known; one engaged in the circulation of books, pamphlets, and other papers.

Pudicity

Pudzeld
English law. To be free from the payment of money for taking of wood in any forest.

Puer
In its enlarged sense this word signifies a child of either sex; though in its restrained meaning it is applied to a boy only.

Puerility
Civil law. This commenced at the age of seven years, the end of the age of infancy, and lasted till the age of puberty, that is, in females till the accomplishment of twelve years, and in males, till the age of fourteen years fully accomplished.

Puffer
Commerce, contracts. A person employed by the owner of property which is sold at auction to bid it up, who does so accordingly, for the purpose of raising the price upon bona fide bidders.

Puisne
Since born; the younger; as, a puisne judge, is an associate judge

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