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Definition of Purporting
1. purport [v] - See also: purport
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purporting
Literary usage of Purporting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"... may be proved by copies purporting to be signed by the chairman of their
respective meetings;' orders or regulations, made or issued by a local ..."
2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"... and instruments purporting to be and representing tickets upon their face
purporting to be entitled to participation in the drawing for The commissioner ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"V29, that one held in custody under authority of a county court after conviction
upon nn indictment purporting f> quired every person practising medicine to ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana by Louisiana Supreme Court (1895)
"207 for $1000 Exchanged for CB 7487 Pledged by Hurt to Hiber purporting to ...
purporting to have been Constitutional Bond. purporting to huve been (This ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1906)
"a bill by a wholesale liquor dealer, purporting to show that the liquor was bought
for personal uae, is admissible as part of the res ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence, as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1858)
"... or by copies purporting to bear the seal of the state or colony to which they
respectively belong.5 In one case, where a book was tendered in evidence, ..."
7. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence by Thomas Starkie, George Morley Dowdeswell, John George Malcolm, George Sharswood (1876)
"By the recent Bankrupt Act/ any proceedings appearing to be sealed with the seal
of the Bankruptcy Court or writings purporting to be copies and to be so ..."
8. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"... counterfeiting a Writing, purporting to be a Promissory Note of Samuel Edwards,
esq. to Samuel Lee, for Four Thousand Seven Hundred Pounds: 3 GEORGE II. ..."
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