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  • PUTATIVE
    Reputed; supposed; commonly esteemed. Applied in Scotch law to creditors and proprietors. 2 Karnes, EQ. 105, 107, 109. -Putative father. The # alleged or reputed father of an illegitimate child. State v. Nest-aval, 72 Minn. 415, 75 X. W. 725.-Putative marriage. A marriage contracted in good faith and in ignorance More...
  • PUTS AND CALLS
    A "put" in the language of the grain or stock market is a privilege of delivering or not delivering the subject-matter of the sale; and a "call" is a privilege of calling or not calling for it Pixley Boynton, 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 committed by putting in fear the person robbed. 3 Inst 68; 4 Bl. Comm. 243.
  • PUTTING IN SUIT
    , as applied to a bond, or any other legal instrument, signifies bringing an action upon it, or making It the subject of an action.
  • PUTURE
    In old English law. A custom claimed by keepers In forests, and sometimes by bailiffs of hundreds, to take man's meat, horse's meat and dog's meat of the tenants and inhabitants within the perambulation of the forest hundred, etc. The land subject to this custom was called "terra putura." Others, More...
  • PYKE, PAIK
    In Hindu law. A foot-passenger ; a person employed as a night-watch In a village, and as a runner or messenger on the business of the revenue. Wharton.
  • PYKERIE
    In old Scotch law. Petty theft 2 Pitc Crim. Tr. 43.
  • PYROMANIA
    See INSANITY.
  • Q. B.
    An abbreviation of "Queen's Bench."
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