单词 | purlieu man |
释义 | purlieu mann. Now historical. The owner of a piece of freehold land in the purlieu of a forest; spec. such a person licensed to hunt within the purlieu (see quot. 1607). ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] > by freehold > types of franklin1297 feoffor1426 frank-tenementary1488 liferenter1535 feoffee1542 purlieu man1573 charterer?1592 fiar1597 swaina1610 life tenant1623 life holder1776 fief-holder1864 common holder1987 1573 J. Fortescue in Hist. Fortescue Family (1869) 226 I answered that I wold not myselfe..hunt my groundes, nor yet suffre anie purlemen to hunte them at anie tyme. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Ggg2v/1 Puorlie man, is he that hath ground within the Purlieu, and being able to dispend 40. shillings by the yeare of freehould, is upon these two points licensed to hunt in his owne purlieu. a1634 E. Coke Courts Forest lxxiii, in Fourth Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. (1648) 304 Seeing the wilde Beasts doe belong to the purlieu man ratione soli, so long as they remain in his grounds, he may kill them. 1706 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 5) 57 But who shall be said properly to be a Purlieu-Man, and that may lawfully Hunt in the Pourallee do next fall in course under consideration. 1794 E. Christian in W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (ed. 12) II. xxvii. 419 (note) If deer come out of the forest into the purlieu, the purlieu-man may hunt and kill them, provided he does it fairly and without forestalling. 1895 F. A. Inderwick King's Peace iv. 144 The purlieu man, as he is called in the old reports, was subject to all the various exactions and restrictions attaching to the original purlieu. 1909 R. W. Raper Let. to Editor 29 Mar. (O.E.D. Archive) I am or claim to be a Purlieu man or Purley man: Having a little land and a Cottage in a Purlieu... My Purlieu is so written, but always pronounced Purley. 1931 J. Buchan Blanket of Dark iii. 55 In the forest..no eye will see him save that of gipsy or charcoal-burner or purley-man. 1995 Law & Hist. Rev. 13 206 Nor do we know that early modern government's attack (via the game laws) on poachers and purlieu men was motivated by anything other than a desire to preserve the royal forest for the Crown. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1573 |
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