Law Dictionary

For as much as.

For purposes of this section, the term “purchase” means— (A) any acquisition of a debt instrument, where (B) the basis of the debt instrument is not determined in whole or in part

WORDS OF. Those by which, taken absolutely, without reference to or connection with any other words, an estate first attaches, or is considered as commencing in point of title, in

acquired for marketing.

The term “purchase data” means all of the applicable data, including weight (if purchased live), for all swine purchased during the applicable reporting period, regardless of the e

IN GOOD tion of equity against a subsequent equita-

The consideration in money which is agreed to be paid by a purchaser.

if he purchase property and give a mortgage for the purchase-money, the deed which he receives and the mortgage which he gives are regarded as one transaction, and no general lien

It was notoriously the general practice to sell an entry or a survey taking the chance of surplus, and the hazard of losing a part of the land by other entries. A special contract,

where two devisees or tenants in common hold under an imperfect title, and one of them buys in the outstanding title, such purchase will enure to their common benefit upon contribu

A purchase wherein a sum of money, or its equivalent, is placed in the hands of a broker by the purchaser as security to the broker against any loss to which he may be exposed by r

Producers' shareholders 'purchased' shares in the new company by exchanging them for their old stock

The term “purchase price” means the adjusted basis of the principal residence on the date such residence is purchased. / The term “purchase price” means the adjusted basis of the p

In the construction of Registry Acts, the term 'purchaser' is usually taken in its technical, legal sense. It means a complete purchaser, or, in other words, a purchaser clothed wi

In chancery a bidder at a sale by a master, under a decree of court, is not considered a purchaser until the report of sale is confirmed.

When there is a fair sale, say the court, and the decree executed by a conveyance from the administrator, the purchaser will not be bound to look beyond the decree, if the facts ne

The purchaser depends on the judgment, the levy and the deed. All other questions are between the parties to the judgment and the marshal. Whether the marshal sells, before or afte

a purchaser at sheriff's sale, cannot protect himself against a prior claim, of which he had no notice; or be held a bona fide purchaser, unless he shall have paid the money.

Of the equitable interest of John Caig the mortgagees were bound to take notice, because the purchaser of an equitable interest, purchases at his peril, and acquires the property b

The person who buys a promissory note or bill of exchange from the holder without his indorsement. Bayley, Bills, 370.

The person who buys a promissory note or bili of exchange from the holder without his indorsement. Purchaser without notice is not obliged to discover to bis own hurt. See 4 Bouv.

The term 'purchasers' as used in this statute includes purchasers at judicial sales. A deed not filed for record is as to them wholly without effect. It is in all respects, so far

The term “purchasing corporation” means any corporation which makes a qualified stock purchase of stock of another corporation.

“purchasing group” means any group which— (A) has as one of its purposes the purchase of liability insurance on a group basis; (B) purchases such insurance only for its group membe

Absolute; complete; simple; unmixed ; unqualified; free from conditions or restrictions; as in the phrases pure charity, pure debt, pure obligation, pure plea, pure villenage, as t

The entire absence of all means of calculating results. See 103 Am. St. Rep. 712, note, quoting Black Law Dictionary.

In Scotch law. A debt actually due, in contradistinction to one which provisionally, in a certain event, which is called a "contingent debt." 1 Bell, Comm. (5th Ed.) 315.

the Constitution imposes no such restraint on government as respects purely commercial advertising. Whether, and to what extent, one may promote or pursue a gainful occupation in t

an executive officer restricted to the performance of executive functions, charged with no duty at all related to either the legislative or judicial power, who is merely one of the

One which Is not suspended by any condition, whether it has been contracted without any condition, or, when thus contracted, the condition has been performed. Poth. Obi. note 176.

In equity pleading. One which relies wholly on some matter dehors the bill; as, for example, a plea of a release on a settled account. Pleas not pure are so called in contradistinc

The First and Fourteenth Amendments do not afford the same kind of freedom to those who would communicate ideas by conduct such as patrolling, marching, and picketing on streets an

For purposes of this subchapter the term “pure sugar” means pure refined sugar, suitable for human consumption, having a dextrose equivalent of not less than 95 percent on a dry ba

Tenure by whatever service thf landlord may require.

A base tenure, where a man holds upon terms of doing whatsoever is commanded of him, nor knows in the evening what is to be done in the morning, and is always bound to an uncertain

An ancient writ addressed to the mayor or bailiff of a city or town, requiring Mm to make proclamation concerning nuisances, etc. Fitz. Nat. B. 392.

I In the civil law. To clean, cleanse or scour, as a ditch, trench or sewer.

I. In old English law. A cleansing or scouring.

The act of clearing one’s self of a criminal charge by denial under oath or by compurgators. See Compurgation .

The oath of a contemnor is no longer a bar to a prosecution for contempt.

An oath by which a person purges or clears himself from presumptions, charges, or suspicions standing against him, or from a contempt.

See Contempt.

See Fire ordeal .

See Hot-water ordeal .

Fr. In French law. An expression used to describe the act of freeing an estate from the mortgages and privileges with which it is charged, observing the formalities prescribed by l

In Scotland, every witness, before making oath or affirmation, is "purged of partial counsel," i. e., cleared by examination on oath of having instigated the plea, of having been p

A room where hogsheads of sugar are placed standing to drain them. See 41 La. Ann. 1000, 6 South. 899.

This is like the ratification of a wrongful act by a person who has power of himself to lawfully do the act; but, unlike ratification, the purging of the tort may take place even a

Atoning foe, or clearing one's self from, contempt of court, (q. v.) It is generally done by apologizing and paying fees, and is generally admitted after a moderate time in proport

I. fr. To violate; to defile.

An insane person, who does not understand what he is doing cannot contract nor carry on any business.

In English law. A space of land near a forest, known by certain boundaries, which was formerly part of a forest, but which has been separated from it. The history of purlieus is th

Those who have ground •within the purlieu to the yearly value of 40s. a year freehold are licensed to hunt in their own purlieus. Manw. For. Law, c. 20, § 8.

To steal.

By means of.

perpars, I. I. In old English law. The share of an estate after partition; purparty.

That part of an estate which, having been held in common, is by partition allotted to one of the parties. See 141 Pa. 93, 21 Atl. 514, citing Bouvier Law Dictionary.

That part of an estate which, having been held in common by parceners, is by partition allotted to any of them. To make purparty is to divide and sever the lands which fall to parc

what appears on the face of the instrument.

In § 403(g) Congress used the words 'purport' and 'represent'—terms suggesting the idea of counterfeit.

more than mere knowledge, undoubtedly present in nearly every case.

For purposes of clause (i), the term “purpose built passenger vehicle” means a passenger vehicle produced by an original equipment manufacturer and designed so that the vehicle may

it is essential in each case that there be some act by which the defendant purposefully avails itself of the privilege of conducting activities within the forum State, thus invokin

A purpose to discriminate must be present which may be proven by systematic exclusion of eligible jurymen of the proscribed race or by unequal application of the law to such an ext

follows: A person acts purposely with respect to a result or to conduct described by a statute defining an offense if it is his conscious object to engage in that conduct or to cau

The purpose of the patent law is to stimulate invention by protecting inventors for a fixed time in the advantages that may be derived from exclusive manufacture, use, and sale.

[a]ny peaceful purpose related to an industrial, agricultural, research, medical, or pharmaceutical activity or other activity," and other specific purposes.

[i]ndustrial, agricultural, research, medical, pharmaceutical or other peaceful purposes," Art. II(9)(a), " id., " at 322, and other specific purposes not at issue here, Arts.

The terms “purposes of the refuge” and “purposes of each refuge” mean the purposes specified in or derived from the law, proclamation, executive order, agreement, public land order

The terms “purposes of the refuge” and “purposes of each refuge” mean the purposes specified in or derived from the law, proclamation, executive order, agreement, public land order

II. In old English law. Purpresture.

Any erection thereon without license is, therefore, deemed an encroachment upon the property of the sovereign, or, as it is termed in the language of the law, a purpresture, which

L. Fr. A close or inclosure ; as also the whole compass of a manor.

An inclosuro.

A term used in heraldry; the color commonly called "purple," expressed in engravings by llnes in bend sinister. In the arms of princes it was formerly called "mercury," and in thos

Purquoi, which see.

Wherefore; why.

A purse, prize or premium ls ordinarily some valuable thing, offered by a person for the doing of something by others, into strife for which he does not enter. He has not a chance

It may be gathered, however, from some of the public acts regulating the departments, that a purser, or as the real name originally was, a burser, is a disbursing officer, and liab

acting or done in consequence or in prosecution (of anything); hence, agreeable; conformable; following; according.

To cause one’s prosecution.

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

As used in constitutional law, this right includes personal freedom, freedom of contract, exemption from oppression or invidious discrimination, the right to follow one's individua

Because.

/. Theft. Furtum grave: with death. Furtum conceptum, goods. Furtum manifestum: open bacherend. Furtum non est ubi nis per dominium rei: there is no begins on grounds of ownership

Pure; clear.

Lat A congenital idiot

An English crown prerogative of buying qecessaries for the royal household at appraised valuations. See 62 Vt. 27, 9 L. R. A. 195, 20 Atl. 107.

One employed in procuring provisions. See Code, 1. 34.

Wherever this term is used, it is manifestly intended to designate the enacting part or body of the act, in contradistinction to the other parts of it, such as the preamble, the sa

The providing part of a statute; that part which follows the preamble, and contains the direct and express provision of the law; that part which consists of direct and express prov

as counsel explains, the spirit of the rule, and that, it is urged, intends only 'money demands, pure and simple,' not contracts of suretyship or conditional obligations.

In Pleading. To select; to demand; as, "the said C. D. puts himself upon the country;" that is, he selects the trial by jury as the mode of settling the matter in dispute, and does

1 Reeve, Eng. Law, c. 3, p. 117. Incontinence does not take away an inheritance.

Reputed to be that which is not. The word is frequently used; as, putative father, putative marriage, putative wife, and the like. And Toullier (Dr. Civ. torn. 7, note 29) uses the

The reputed father. This term is most usually applied to the father of a bastard child.

In the civil law. A marriage which is forbidden, but which has been contracted in good faith and ignorance of the impediment on the part of at least one of the contracting parties.

In practice. To place in due form before a court; to place among the records of a court.

Applied to a chose In action, to sue on.

In old statutes. To put in practice or effect; to carry into effect Sometimes written to "put in use." PUT UPON' (Law Lat. ponere super). In practice. To rest upon; to submit to; a