purpresture
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 85 U.S. 57 - Weber v. The Board of Harbor Commissioners · 1873Most cited · 221 citing opinions
Any erection thereon without license is, therefore, deemed an encroachment upon the property of the sovereign, or, as it is termed in the language of the law, a purpresture, which he may remove at pleasure, whether it tend to obstruct navigation or otherwise.
How often courts cite the case defining “purpresture”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “purpresture” — 219 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.