putatively legal definition of putatively. putatively synonyms by the Free Online Law Dictionary.

Alleged; supposed; reputed.

A putative father is the individual who is alleged to be the father of an illegitimate child.

A putative marriage is one that has been contracted in Good Faith and pursuant to ignorance, by one or both parties, that certain impediments exist to render it null and void.

putative adj. commonly believed, supposed or claimed. Thus a putative father is one believed to be the father unless proved otherwise, a putative marriage is one that is accepted as legal when in reality it was not lawful (e.g. due to failure to complete a prior divorce). A putative will is one that appears to be the final will but a later will is found that revokes it and shows that the putative will was not the last will of the deceased.

PUTATIVE. Reputed to be that which is not. The word is frequently used, as putative father, (q.v.) putative marriage, putative wife, and the like. And Toullier, tome 7, n. 29, uses the words putative owner, proprietare putatif. Lord Kames uses the same expression. Princ. of Eq. 391.

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And because he relies largely on works by European and American male authors about male murderers ("to add female writers and female murderers would have multiplied [too many] variables"), that individual turns out to be the usual suspect: the putatively autonomous Western male subject (p. A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels and Systems ... by Eustace, Nicole / Journal of Social History The Supreme Court blocked that law in 2004 with instructions that a lower court determine whether there are less restrictive means to limit minors' access to putatively harmful "adult" material. Searching the searchers: the DOJ's indecent proposal by Sanchez, Julian / Reason Having examined Pericles' speech, what can modern Americans--embroiled in our own unpopular, morally and mortally expensive, unilateral, putatively preventive, and preemptive war against an ambiguously defined enemy--learn from this epoch in history? Lessons of the Peloponnesian War: although the current "war on ... by Wolverton, Joe, II / The New American More results

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And because he relies largely on works by European and American male authors about male murderers ("to add female writers and female murderers would have multiplied [too many] variables"), that individual turns out to be the usual suspect: the putatively autonomous Western male subject (p.

A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels and Systems ... by Eustace, Nicole / Journal of Social History

The Supreme Court blocked that law in 2004 with instructions that a lower court determine whether there are less restrictive means to limit minors' access to putatively harmful "adult" material.

Searching the searchers: the DOJ's indecent proposal by Sanchez, Julian / Reason

Having examined Pericles' speech, what can modern Americans--embroiled in our own unpopular, morally and mortally expensive, unilateral, putatively preventive, and preemptive war against an ambiguously defined enemy--learn from this epoch in history?

Lessons of the Peloponnesian War: although the current "war on ... by Wolverton, Joe, II / The New American

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