Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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PURSUER

PYKERIE

PURSUER. The name by which the complainant or plaintiff is known in the ec clesiastical courts, and in the Scotch law. PURUS IDIOTA. idiot. Lat. A congenital PURVEYANCE. In old English law. A providing of necessaries for the king's house. Cowell. PURVEYOR. In old English law. An officer who procured or purchased articles needed for the king's use at an arbitrary pi ice. In the statute 36 Edw. III. c. 2, this is called a "heignous nome," (heinous or hateful name,) and changed to that of "acha tor. " Barring. Ob. St. 289. PURVIEW. That part of a statute com mencing with the words "Be it enacted," and continuing as far as the repealing clause; and hence, the design, contemplation, pur pose, or scope of the act. PUT. In pleading. To confide to; to re ly upon; to submit to. As in the phrase, "the sa d defendant puts himself upon the country;" that is, he trusts his case to the arbitrament of a jury. PUT IN. In practice. To place in due form before a court; to place among the rec ords of a court. PUT OUT. To open. To put out lights; to open or cut windows. 11 East, 372. Putagium haereditatem non adimit. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 3, p. 117. Incontinence does not take away an inheritance. PUTATIVE. Reputed; supposed; com monly esteemed. Applied in Scotch law to creditors and proprietors. 2 Kames, Eq. 105, 107, 109. PUTATIVE FATHER. The alleged or reputed father of an illegitimate child. PUTATIVE MARRIAGE. A marriage contracted in good faith and in ignorance (on

one or both sides) that impediments exist which render it unlawful. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 556. PUTS AND CALLS. A "put" in the language of the grain or stock market is a privilege of delivering or not deliveiing the subject-matter of the sale; and a "call" is a privilege of calling or not calling for it. 79 111. 351. PUTS AND REFUSALS. In English law. Time-bargains, or contracts for the sale of supposed stock on a future day. PUTTING IN FEAR. These words are used in the definition of a robbery from the person. The offense must have been com mitted by putting in year the person robbed• 3 Inst. 68; 4 Bl. Comm. 243. PUTTING IN SUIT, as applied to a bond, or any other legal instrument, signi fies bringing an action upon it, or making it the subject of an action. PUTURE. In old English law. A cus tom claimed by keepers in forests, and some times by bailiffs of hundreds, to take man's meat, horse's meat, and dog's meat of the tenants and inhabitants within the peram bulation of the forest, hundred, etc. The land subject to this custom was called "terra putura." Others, who call it "pulture," explain it as a demand in general; and de rive it from the monks, who, befoie they were admitted, pulsabant, knocked at the gates forseveial days together. 4 Inst. 307; Cowell. PYKE, PAIK. In Hindu law. A foot passenger; a person employed as a night watch in a village, and as a runner or mes senger on the business of the revenue. Wharton. PYKERIE. In old Scotch law. Petty theft. 2 Pitc. Crim. Tr. 43.

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