Pursuer
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The name by which the complainant or plaintiff is known in the ecclesiastical courts.
3 Ecc. 350.
PURUS (Lat.) In old English law. Pure; clear; simple; free of any qualification or condition. Donationum quaedam libera et pura, et quaedam sub conditione vel sub modo, of gifts, one kind is free and pure, and another under a condition or qualification. Bracton, fol. lib.
Absolute.
Purus idiota, a clear or absolute idiot.
1 Bl. Comm. 303.
PURVEYANCE (Law Fr. and Bng.; from pourvoire, to provide.
In old English law
A providing of necessaries for the king's house.
Cowell.
A buying at the king's price. Hale, Anal. § viii.
See Pourveyance.