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What does puisne mean?

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Adjective
  1. (law) Inferior in rank. A puisne justice of a court is a judge other than the chief justice.
  2. (obsolete) Later in age, time, etc.; subsequent.
  3. (obsolete) Puny; petty; unskilled.
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The Supreme Court is constituted by a judge, the Chief Justice or one of several puisne judges, with or without assessors.
Application allowed with the costs reserved to court that hears appeal, to be heard by three judges one of whom can be a puisne judge to sit.
However, involving puisne judges in the initial stage of reviewing complaints would be quite a different matter.
As a puisne judge I am entitled to disagree with what my colleagues have said, although I would prefer to follow them if I can.
After a quarter of a century of successful practice he was appointed 1808 a puisne judge of the Supreme Court.
In the House of Lords they vote one by one, beginning with the junior, called the puisne baron.

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