Purchase

The acquisition of property by the act of the parties as distinguished from the act of law; by gift, grant, or devise, as distinguished from descent, escheat, or reverter; acquirement, not inheritance. Words of Limitation. clearing one's self of a crime. Canonical purgation: the purgation of a clerk by his own oath, with or without compurgators, or by the corsned; as distinct from vulgar purgation, purgation by the ordeals of fire, water, or battel.