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The general practice of salespeople inflating the importance of a product available for sale with exaggerated marketing. While general puffing does not usually result in damages, there is responsibility if those exaggerated statements extend to facts that are clearly inaccurate and there will be liability for misrepresentation and fraud. … [Read more...] about PUFFING

Latin: Of public right This term, as applied to a thing or right, means that it is open to or exercisable by all persons. When a thing is common property, so that any one can make use of it who likes, it is said to be "publici juris;" as in the case of light air, and public water. Sweet Or it designates things which are owned by "the public;" that is, the entire state or … [Read more...] about PUBLICI JURIS

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: … [Read more...] about PUIS

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. … [Read more...] about PUBLICIANA

pleading. These old French words signify since the last continuance. 2. Formerly there were formal adjournments or continuances of the proceedings in a suit, for certain purposes, from one term to another; and during the interval the parties were of course out of court. When any matter arose which was a ground of defence, since the last continuance, the defendant was allowed to … [Read more...] about PUIS DARREIN CONTINUANCE