Putative
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Reputed to be that which Is not. The word is frequently used: as, putative father, putative marriage, putative wife, and the like.
And Toullier, tome 7, n.
29, uses the words putative owner, proprietaire putatif. Lord Kames uses the same expression.
Princ. of Eq. 391.