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Pueblo

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Spanish law. People; all the inhabitants of any country or place, without distinction. A town, township, or municipality. Las Partidas, pt.

1, tit. 2, 1. 5; White, New Recop. bk. 2, tit. 1, c. 6, § 4; Schmidt, Civ. Law, 44, 185; 10 Otto (U. S.) 251.

PUER (Lat.) A boy; a child. In its enlarged sense, this word signifies a child of either sex, though in its restrained' meaning it is applied to a boy only. A case once arose which turned upon this question, whether a daughter could take lands under the description of puer; and it was decided by two judges against one that she was entitled.

Dyer, 337b.

In another case, it was ruled the other way.

Hob. 33.

PUERI SUNT DE SANGUINE PARENtum, sed pater et mater non sunt de sanguine puerorum. Children are of the blood of their parents, but the father and mother are not of the blood of their children.

3 Coke, 40.