Puis

PUYS, PUES, PUS, or PUZ (LaW Fr.) After; since; afterwards. Kelham. PUIS DARREIN CONTINUANCE (Law. Fr. since last continuance).

In pleading. A plea which is put in after issue joined, for the purpose,of introducing new matter, or matter which has come to the kno\vledge of the party pleading it subsequently to such joinder. There is a distinction between a plea setting up matter of defense, which has arisen since the commencement of the action but before plea pleaded, and pleas alleging matters of defense originating after pleas pleaded. A plea of the former kind is not, properly speaking, a plea of puis darrein continuance. Such a plea differs from a plea in bar in this only, that it cannot destroy the original cause of action, and cannot be pleaded in bar generally, but must be pleaded to the further maintenance of the suit. 8 111. 103. See "Plea." PUISNE (Law Fr.) Younger; junior; associate. PULSARE (Lat.)

In the civil' law. To beat, without giving pain. To accuse or charge; to proceed against at law. Calv. Lex.

In law French. Afterwards; since.

— Puis darrein continuance. Since the last continuance. The name of a plea which a defendant is allowed to put in. after having already pleaded, where some new matter of defense arises after issue joined; such as payment, a release by the plaintiff, the discharge of the defendant under an insolvent or bankrupt law, and the like. 3 Bl. Comm. 316; 2 Tidd, Pr. 847: Chattanooga v. Neely, 97 Tenn. 527, 37 S. W. 281; Waterbury v. McMillan, 46 Miss. 640; Woods v. White, 97 Pa. 227.

puys, pues, pus, puz, I fr. After; since; afterwards. Puis darrein continuance: since the last continuance; a plea which a defendant may put in, after having already pleaded, where some new matter of defense arises after issue joined.

See Continuance, 1.

puys, puz, etc., fr. After; siace. Puis darrein continuance: a plea of new matter arisen since issue joined, since the last continuance; a plea to the further maintenance of the action. Puisne: younger; junior; later iu-time; an ordinary judge in bank as distinguished from the chief justice. Puis que: after that. Mulier puisne: v. Mulier.

In law French, afterwards; since. Pui3 darrein continuance. Since last continuance. This phrase was applied, in the common-law system of pleading, to designate a plea which the defendant was allowed to put in after issue joined, for the purpose of setting jip some new matter of defence which had arisen, or some matter which had first come to his knowledge after joinder of issue. Such a plea was termed a plea puis darrein continuance, in reference to the practice of entering continuances of the cause on record at each step in the proceeding; the new matter being alleged to have arisen or been discovered since the last continuance. The term continued in use after the entry of continuances was abolished in English practice, and pleas of this nature were more properly designated pleas to the further maintenance of the action. The object of such a plea is accomplished, under many American codes of procedure and practice acts, by a supplemental pleading. Under the English judicature acts, a ground of defence arising after action brought, but before the defendant has delivered his statement of defence, and before the time limited for his doing so has expired, may be pleaded by the defendant in his statement of defence. And any ground of defence arising after the defendant has has expired, may be pleaded within eight days after such ground of defence has arisen. See act of 1875, sched. 1, order 20, rules 1, 2.