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
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In old Scotch law. Petty theft 2 Pitc. Crim. Tr. 43
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In English law. Time-bargains, or contracts for the sale of supposed stock on a future day
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These words are used in the definition of a robbery from the person. The offense must have been commltted by putting in fear the person robbed. 3 Inst 68; 4 Bl. Comm. 243
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Reputed; supposed; com* mouly esteemed. Applied in Scotch law to creditors and proprietors. 2 Kames, Eq. 105, 107, 109
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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 v. Boynton, 79 111. 351
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In practice. To place in due form before a court; to place among the records of a court
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To open. To put out lights; to open or cut windows. 11 East, 372
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In old English law. An officer who procured or purchased articles needed for the king’s use at an arbitrary price. In the statute 36 Edw. III. c. 2, this is called a “heignoua nome,” (heinous or hateful name,) and changed to that of "acha-tor.” Barring, ob. St 289
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That part of a statute commencing with the words “Be it enacted,” and continuing as far as the repealing clause; and hence, the design, contempts* tion, purpose, or scope of the act. See Smith v. Hickman, Cooke (Tenn.) 337; Payne v. Conner, 3 Bibb (Ky.) 181; Hirth v. Indianapolis, 18 Ind. App. 673, 48 N. E. 876
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In old English law. A providing of necessaries for the king’s house. Cowell.
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The name by which the com-plainaut or plaintiff is known in the eccle-siostical courts, and in the Scotch law
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The person appointed by the master of a ship or vessel, whose duty it is to take care of the ship's books, in which every thing on board is inserted, as well the names of mariners as the articles of merchandise shipped. Roccus, Ins. note
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To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party
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or PORPRIN. A term used in heraldry; the color commonly called “purple," expressed in engravings hy lines in bend sinister. In the arms of princes it was formerly called “mercury," and in those of peers “amethyst”
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A purse, prize, or premium is ordinarily some valuable thing, offered by a person for the doing of something hy others, into strife for which he does not enter. He has not a chance of gaining the thing offered; and, lf he abide hy his offer, that he must lose it and give it over to some of those con-tending for it is reasonably certain. Harris v. white, 81 N. Y. 539
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A purpresture may be defined as an inclosure by a private party of a part of that which belongs to and ought to be open and free to the enjoyment of the public at large. It is not necessarily a public nuisance. A public nuisance must be something which subjects the public to some de-gree of inconvenience or annoyance; but a purpresture may exist without putting the publlc to any inconvenience whatever. Attorney General v. Evart Booming Co., 34 Midi. 462. And see Cobb v. Lincoln Park Com’rs, 202 111. 427, 67 N. E. 5, 63 L. R. A. 264, 95 Am. St. Rep. 258; Columbus v. Jaques, 30 Ga. 506; Sullivan v. Moreno, 19 Fla. 228; U. S. v. Debs (C. C.) 64 Fed. 740; Drake v. Hudson River R. Co., 7 Barb. (N. ¥.) 548
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L. Fr. A close or lnclo-sure; as also the whole compass of a manor
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A share; a part in a division ; that part of an estate, formerly held In common, which is by partition allotted to any one of the parties. The word was an-ciently applied to the shares falling separately to coparceners upon a division or partition of the estate, and was generally spelled “pur
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Meaning; import; substan-tlal meaning; substance. The “purport” of an instrument means the substance of it as it appears on the face of the instrument, and is distinguished from “tenor,” which means an exact copy. See Dana v. State, 2 ohio St 93; State v. Sherwood, 90 Iowa, 550, 58 N. W. 911, 48 Am. St. Rep. 461; State v. Pullens, 81 Mo. 392; Com. v. wright, 1 Cush. (Mass.) 65; State v. Page, 19 Mo. 213
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In English law. A space of land near a royal forest, which, belng severed from it, was made purlieu; that is, pure or free from the forest laws
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To steal; to commit larceny or theft. McCann v. U. S., 2 wyo. 298
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