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Poustie

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

or POISTEE (Scotch).

In Scotch law

Power. 1 Pitc. Grim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 162.

See "Liege Poustie." A word formed from the Latin potestas.