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Pursue

A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

1.

To follow, in order to overtake or obtain. Following immediately with intent to reclaim or recapture goods being carried off by a thief, or an escaping animal, is making " fresh pursuit." ^ 2. To use measures tp obtain; to prosecute; to continue: as, to pursue a remedy.

Compare Suit, 1.

See Happiness. ' People ex rel. Thomas v. Scott, 9 Col. 432, 430 (1886). = F. pourpris, a taking without authority; an enclosure,—4 BI.

Com. 167. 3 [3 Story, Eq. 921, cases. < [4 Bl. Cora. 167. ' Wood, Nuisances, § 604. • Weber v. Harbor Commissioners, 18 Wall. 65 (1873); Angell. Tid. W. 108. ' Attorney-General v. Evart Booming Co., 34 Mich. 472-73 (1876), Cooley, C. J. See also Wood, Nuis. § 604; 2 Ct. CI. 401; 30 Ga. 612; 31 Minn. 302; 2 Johrts. Ch.