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Puisne adj.

Later in age, time, etc.; subsequent. (Obs.) " A puisne date to eternity."

Puny; petty; unskilled. (Obs.)

(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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Court (chief justice appointed by the president, puisne judges appointed on the advice of the Judicial ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... justice in the hands of one dominant class, whose principles, whose passions whose interests, are all likely to be preferred by the judges when they presume to sit where you have placed them on the judgment seat. The chief and puisne judges are raised to their situations from amongst the class which includes the white men and planters. But, worse than that, the jurors are taken from the same privileged body: jurors, who are to assess civil damages in actions for injuries done to ...

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