"Puisne" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any …

Inferior to in rank, excellence, dignity, value, amount, price, etc.; lower in quality.

In Saxon law. A freeman of inferior rank, chiefly employed in husbandry. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 5. A tenant at …

(1) A woman who cohabits with a man to whom she is not married. (2) A sort of inferior wife, …

To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to …

The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors.

of the same order, rank, degree, or authority; concurrent; without any dtstlnctlon of superiority and inferiority; ns, courts of “co-ordinate …

In English law. A very ancient court of record, set up by william the Conqueror as a part of the …

A subordinate or local assembly; a diet of inferior rank.

To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to …

Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in …

In old English law; An injury by union or comparison with some person or thing of inferior rank or excellence

One not inferior or superior to another; one having the same or a similar age, rank, station, office, talents, strength, …

A collegian of inferior rank or position, corresponding to the sizar at Cambridge.

Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer.

A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc., than another.

Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.

The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth.

In Amer-iean law. A judicial officer of inferior rank holding a court not of record, and having (usually) civil jurisdiction …

A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.