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Putative

Defined in 8 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889), Abbott (1879), Bouvier (1839)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

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 words putative owner, proprietaire putatif. Lord Kames uses the same expression (Eq. 391).

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Reputed; supposed.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Reputed to be that which Is not. The word is frequently used: as, putative father, putative marriage, putative wife, and the like. And Toullier, tome 7, n. 29, uses the words putative owner, proprietaire putatif. Lord Kames uses the same expression. Princ. of Eq. 391.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Reputed; supposed; commonly esteemed. Applied in Scotch law to creditors and proprietors. 2 Kames, Eq. 105, 107, 109.

Putative father. The alleged or reputed father of an illegitimate child. State v. Nest-aval, 72 Minn. 415, 75 N. W. 725.

Putative marriage. A marriage contracted in good faith and in ignorance (on one or both sides) that impediments exist which render it uniawful. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 556. See In re Hall, 61 App. Div. 266, 70 N. Y. Supp. 410, Smith v. Stnitli, 1 Tex. 628, 46 Am. Dee, 12L

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

Reputed; supposed; commonly esteemed. (^. An abbreviation of queen, qiicere. (J. B.: Queen's Bench. (J. B. D.: Queen's Bench Division. (J. C.: Queen's counsel. Q. V.: quod vide, which see, — a reference to another passage or title.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

6 Supposed; reported; reputed: as, a putative — father, wife, marriage.' See Bastard. Q. Q. As an abbreviation, commonly denotes quare, queen, qui, or quod. Q. B. Queen's bench.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Believed; reputed. A man who has been adjudged in proceedings in bastardy to be the father of a bastard is called the putative father. A marriage which has been contracted in good faith by parties who were ignorant of an impediment, which, however, existed, and should have prevented the marriage, is called, in the civil law, a putative marriage. See Bouvier. well as the memorandum itseK, is called a query. QU^RENS. Plaintiff; complainant. Actor (q. v.) is more frequently used in this sense. Quserens non invenit plagium. The plaintiff did not find security. This phrase is the form and also the name of the return made by a sheriff to a writ requiring him to take security of a plaintiff to prosecute his cause, where security is not given.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

Reputed to be that which is not. This word is frequently used, as putative father, (q. v.) putative marriage, putative wife, and the like. And Toullier, tome 7, n. 29, uses the words putative owner, proprietaire putatif.