Put
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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 not rely upon an issue in law. Gould, PL c. 6, pt. 1, § 19. In Mercantile Usage. A term of the stock markets, signifying an option to sell t& another certain goods within a specified time, at a specified price. See "Gambling Contract."
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
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 not rely upon an issue in law. Gould, PI. c. 6, part 1, § 19. Its completion or to procure a resale of the goods to a third person. 11 Ex. 302.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
The privilege of delivering personalty, as under a contract of sale, within a certain time, at a certain price; an option to sell; the opposite of call.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
A " put," in the language of the grain or stock market, is a privilege of delivering or not delivering the suhjectmatter of the sale; and a " call " is a privilege of calling or not calling for it. Pixley V. Boynton, 79 III. 351. A " put " is the privilege for a nominal consideration of delivering a large quantity (of grain) within a certain time, at a specified price; and such privileges, when taken Q.