Purser
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The person appointed by the master of a ship or vessel, whose duty it is to take care of the ship's books, in which everything on board is inserted, as well the names of mariners as the articles of merchandise shipped. Roccius, Ins. note. PURSUE (from Lat. persequi). To follow a matter judicially, as a complaining party. In Scotch law, to prosecute criminally.
3 How. St. Tr. 425.