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Purparty






Purparty

That part of an estate, which having been held in common by parceners, is by partition allotted to any of them. To make purparty is to divide and sever the lands which fall to parceners.

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

Common
marriage law. a marriage in which no formal ceremony took place and no license exists.

Parceners
English law. The daughters of a man or woman seised of lands and tenements in fee simple or fee tail, on whom, after the death of such ancestor, such lands and tenements descend, and they enter.

Partition
Conveyancing. A deed of partition is, one by which lands held in joint tenancy, coparcenary, or in common, are divided into distinct portions, and allotted to the several parties, who take them in severalty.

Purparty
That part of an estate, which having been held in common by parceners, is by partition allotted to any of them. To make purparty is to divide and sever the lands which fall to parceners.

Fall
A life estate is sometimes said to "fall into", that is, to merge with the fee.



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Purport
Pleading. This word means the substance of a writing, as it appears on the face of it, to the eye that reads it; it differs from tenor.

Purpose of an appraisal
The states scope of an appraisal assignment, i.e., to estimate a defined value of any real property interest, or to conduct an evaluation study pertaining to real property decisions.

Purpresture
According to Lord Coke, purpresture, is a close or enclosure, that is, when one encroaches or makes several to himself that which ought to be in common to many; as if an individual were to build between high and low water-mark on the side of a public river.



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Pure debt
In Scotland, this name is given to a debt actually due, in contradistinction to one which is to become due at a future day certain, which is called a future debt: and one due provisionally, in a certain event, which is called a contingent debt.

Pure or simple obligation
One which is not suspended by any condition, whether it has been contracted without any condition, or when thus contracted, the condition has been performed.

Pure plea
Equity pleading. One which relies wholly on some matter dehors the bill as for example, a plea of a release or a settled account.

Purgation
The clearing one's self of an offence charged, by denying the guilt on oath or affirmation.

Purlieu
English law. A space of land near a forest, known by certain boundaries, which was formerly part of a forest, but which has been separated from it.

Purparty

Purport
Pleading. This word means the substance of a writing, as it appears on the face of it, to the eye that reads it; it differs from tenor.

Purpose of an appraisal
The states scope of an appraisal assignment, i.e., to estimate a defined value of any real property interest, or to conduct an evaluation study pertaining to real property decisions.

Purpresture
According to Lord Coke, purpresture, is a close or enclosure, that is, when one encroaches or makes several to himself that which ought to be in common to many; as if an individual were to build between high and low water-mark on the side of a public river.

Purse
In Turkey the sum of five hundred dollars is called a purse.

Purser
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 everything on board is inserted, as well the names of mariners as the articles of merchandise shipped.

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