Pourpresture
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
See Purpresture."
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Same as Purpresture.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
An inclosure. Anything done to the nuisance or hurt of the public demesnes or the highways, etc., by inclosure or building, endeavoring to make that private which ought to be public. The difference between a pourpresture and a public nuisance is that pourpresture is an invasion of the jus privatum of the crown; but where the jus publicum is violated it is a nuisance, Skene makes three sorts of this offense;
(1) Against the crown;
(2) against the lord of the fee;
(3) against a neighbor. 2 Inst 38; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 156.
(1) Against the crown;
(2) against the lord of the fee;
(3) against a neighbor. 2 Inst 38; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 156.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
or pnrpresture. The wrongful other; encroacliing on crown or common lauds.