Purport
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In pleading. The substance of a vsrriting as it appears on the face of it to the eye that reads it. It differs from tenor (g. v.) 2 Russ. Crimes, 365; 1 East, 179; and therefore, where the instrument is stated according to its tenor, the purport of it must necessarily appear.
9 Yerg. (Tenn.) 394.
To "purport" means "to intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify."
39 111. App. 594.