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Putative father






Putative father

The reputed father.

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Father
Domestic relations. He by whom a child is begotten.



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

Putative marriage
This marriage is described by jurists as "matrimonium putativum, id est, quod bona fide et solemnitur saltem, opinions conjugis unius justa contractum inter personas vetitas jungi." It is a marrriage contracted in good faith, and in ignorance of the existence of those facts which constituted a legal impediment to the intermarriage.



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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.

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.

Putative father

Putative marriage
This marriage is described by jurists as "matrimonium putativum, id est, quod bona fide et solemnitur saltem, opinions conjugis unius justa contractum inter personas vetitas jungi." It is a marrriage contracted in good faith, and in ignorance of the existence of those facts which constituted a legal impediment to the intermarriage.

Putting in fear
These words are used in the definition of a robbery from the person; the offence must have been committed by putting in fear the person robbed.

Pyramid scheme
A commercial version of the Chain Letter scheme where the Fraudster sells bogus distributorships, franchises or business opportunity plans to people who are in turn induced to do the same.

Pactum constitutae pecuniae
Civil law. An agreement by which a person appointed to his creditor, a certain day, or a certain time, at which he pro-mised to pay; or it maybe defined, simply. an agreement by which a person promises a creditor to pay him.

Puis darrein continuance
Pleading. These old French words signify since the last continuance.

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