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purˈparty Law. arch.
Forms: 4 porpartie, 4–5 pour-, purpartie, 5 -ye, 6–8 purparty, 7– pourparty.
[a. AF. purpartie (Britton 1292) = OF. por- (1255 in Godef., in med. Anglo-L. purpartia, propertia), f. por- pour-:—L. prō- for, forth, etc. + partie division, part: see party; cf. prec.]
A proportion, a share, esp. in an inheritance.
a1325MS. Rawl. B. 520 lf. 7 b, Þe writ of nouele deseisine aut of purpartie. 1390Gower Conf. II. 184 That ech of hem as Heritage His porpartie hath underfonge. Ibid. 364 Pourpartie. 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 40 Preamble, The seid Manoris..were allotted to the purpartie and particion therof of the seid John Howard. 1596Bacon Max. & Use Com. Law i. xxiii, If three Coparceners be, and one of them alien her purparty. 1658Phillips, To make Pour⁓party, to sever the Lands that fall to partners, which before partition they held joyntly. 1793H. Walpole Let. to Miss M. Berry 6 Oct., I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds. 1856Bouvier's Law Dict. (ed. 6) II. 405 To make purparty is to divide and sever the lands which fall to parceners. 1882C. Sweet Dict. Eng. Law 659 Purparty is an old word for share or portion,..to hold land in purparty with a person is to hold it jointly with him. 1920Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. 30 To each co-heir was allotted, as a permanent pourparty, a definite manor or castle for a chief seat. |