Puture
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A custom claimed by keepers in forests, and sometimes by bailiffs of hundreds, to take man's meat, horse's meat, and dog's meat of the tenants and inhabitants within the perambulation of the forest, hundred, etc. The land subject to this custom was called "terra putura." Others, who call it "pulture," explain it as a demand in general, and derive it from the monks, who, before they were admitted, pulsabant, knocked at the gates for several days together.
4 Inst. 307; Cowell.
PYKERIE (Scotch). In old Scotch law. Petty theft.
2 Pitc. Crim. Tr. 43.
Q. A letter tised in the Roman law, in various abbreviations. An abbreviation used in writing out decrees of the senate.
Tayl. Civ. Law, 576.
Calv. Lex. Q. C.: An abbreviation of "queen's counsel" (g. V.)