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Pur autre vie






Pur autre vie

Tenures. These old French words signify, for another's life. An estate is said to be pur autre vie, when a lease is made of lands or tenements to a man, to hold for the life of another person

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Life
The aggregate of the animal functions which resist death. Bichat.

Estate
A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person.

Said
Before mentioned.

When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.

Lease
A special kind of contract between a property owner and a person wanting temporary enjoyment and use of the property, in exchange for rent paid to the property owner. Where the property is land, a building, or parts of either, the property owner is called a landlord and the person that contracts to receive the temporary enjoyment and use is called a tenant.

Man
A human being. This definition includes not only the adult male sex of the human species, but women and children; examples: "of offences against man, some are more immediately against the king, other's more immediately against the subject." Hawk. P. C. book 1, c. 2, s. 1. Offences against the life of man come under the general name of homicide, which in our law signifies the killing of a man by a man.

Hold
To decide, adjudge, decree. Whence also freehold and leasehold. "Holding", relating to ownership in property, embraces two idea: actual possession of some subject of property, and being invested with the legal title. It may be applied to anything the subject of property, in law or in equity.

Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.



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Punishment of death
The deliberate killing, according to the forms of law,, of a person who has been lawfully convicted of certain crimes

Punitive damages
Damages awarded in addition to normal damages for bad faith or excessively improper acts of the defendant in contract or tort or even during a court action.

Pupil
Civil law. One who is in his or her minority.

Pupillarity
Civil law. That age of a person's life which included infancy and puerility.

Pur
A corruption of the French word par, by or for. It is frequently used in old French law phrases; as, pur autre vie. It is also used in the composition of words, as purparty, purlieu, purview.

Pur autre vie

Purchase
In its most enlarged and technical sense, purchase signifies the lawful acquisition of real estate by any means whatever, except descent. It is thus defined by Littleton, section 12. "Purchase is called the possession of lands or tenements that a man hath by his own deed or agreement, unto which possession he cometh, not by title of descent from any of his ancestors or cousins, but by his own deed."

Purchase agreement or purchase offer
Also, sales agreement and earnest money contract. Agreement between buyer and seller of property which sets forth in general the price and terms of a proposed sale.

Purchase order
A document issued by a company, or purchaser, ordering goods or services from another company, or vendor. A purchase order typically contains contract terms applying to the sale that the vendor is assumed to have agreed to if the vendor delivers the contracted for goods or services. Therefore, a purchase order should be reviewed as carefully as any contract.

Purchase-money
The consideration which is agreed to be paid by the purchaser of a thing in money. It is the duty of the purchaser to pay the purchase-money as agreed upon in making the contract, and, in case of conveyance of an estate before it is paid, the vendor is entitled according to the laws of, England, which have been adopted in several of the states, to a lien on the estate sold for the purchase-money so remaining unpaid. This is called an equitable lien. This doctrine is derived from the civil law.

Purchaser
contracts. A buyer, a vendee.

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