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Definition of Purview
1. Noun. The range of interest or activity that can be anticipated. "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge"
Definition of Purview
1. n. The body of a statute, or that part which begins with " Be it enacted, " as distinguished from the preamble.
Definition of Purview
1. Noun. (legal) The enacting part of a statute. ¹
2. Noun. (legal) The scope of a statute. ¹
3. Noun. Scope or range of interest or control. ¹
4. Noun. Range of understanding. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Purview
1. the extent of operation, authority, or concern [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purview
Literary usage of Purview
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Commentaries, Or Reports of Edmund Plowden: ... Containing Divers Cases by Edmund Plowden (1816)
"purview, which was not larger than the Exception, was against And then inasmuch
as Stowel, the Demandant, was not excepted, because he had no Right at the ..."
2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"purview. The meaning usually attached to the term "purview" by writers on law
seems to be "the enacting part of a statute. In contradistinction to the ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"The appointment of a temporary administrator does not constitute "representation"
upon the estate of a decedent, within the purview of Civil Code 1910, ..."
4. Commentaries on the Law of Statutory Crimes: Including the Written Laws and by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1901)
"The purview and its subdivisions; IV. The precedence of provisions; V. The division
of a statute into sections. ..."
5. The Consolidated Laws of the State of New York, 1909 by New York (State), Frederick Eugene Wadhams (1909)
"L. 1801, Ch. 193, repeals all acts that come within the purview or operation of the
... Statute repealed conies -within the purview and operation of L. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Rules which Govern the Interpretation and Application of by Theodore Sedgwick (1857)
"A statute for practical purposes is divided into the following parts :— The Title.
The Commencement. The Preamble. The purview, or Body of the Act. Special ..."
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