purser
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 30 U.S. 115 - The United States v. Thomas Tingey · 1831Most cited · 130 citing opinions
disbursing officer
It may be gathered, however, from some of the public acts regulating the departments, that a purser, or as the real name originally was, a burser, is a disbursing officer, and liable to account to the government as such.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “purser” — 130 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.