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Purse






Purse

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

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Hundred
English law. A district of country originally comprehending one hundred families. In many cases, when an offence is committed within the -hundred, the inhabitants tire civilly responsible to the party injured.

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



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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.

Pursuer
Canon law. The name by which the complainant or plaintiff is known in the ecclesiastical courts.



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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
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.

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

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.

Pursuer
Canon law. The name by which the complainant or plaintiff is known in the ecclesiastical courts.

Purveyor
One employed in procuring provisions.

Purview
That part of an act of the legislature which begins with the words "Be it enacted," &c., aud ends before the repealing clause.

Putative
Reputed to be that which is not. The word is frequently used, as putative father, putative marriage, putative wife, and the like.

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