Putative

Believed; reputed. A man who has been adjudged in proceedings in bastardy to be the father of a bastard is called the putative father. A marriage which has been contracted in good faith by parties who were ignorant of an impediment, which, however, existed, and should have prevented the marriage, is called, in the civil law, a putative marriage. See Bouvier. well as the memorandum itseK, is called a query.

QU^RENS.

Plaintiff; complainant. Actor (q. v.) is more frequently used in this sense.

Quserens non invenit plagium

The plaintiff did not find security. This phrase is the form and also the name of the return made by a sheriff to a writ requiring him to take security of a plaintiff to prosecute his cause, where security is not given.