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Putative marriage






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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Marriage
A contract made in due form of law, by which a free man and a free woman reciprocally engage to live with each other during their joint lives, in the union which ought io exist between husband and wife. By the terms freeman and freewoman in this definition are meant, not only that they are free and not slaves, but also that they are clear of all bars to a lawful marriage.

Bona
Goods and chattels. In the Roman law, it signifies every kind of property, real, personal, and mixed, but chiefly it was applied to real estates; chattels being chiefly distinguished by the words, effects, movables

Inter
Between, among; as, inter vivos, between living persons; inter alia, among others.

Faith
Probity; good faith is the very soul of contracts. Faith also signifies confidence, belief; as, full faith and credit ought to be given to the acts of a magistrate while acting within his jurisdiction.

Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.



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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 father
The reputed father.



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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
The reputed father.

Putative marriage

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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