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Definition :

Puture, a custom claimed by keepers in forests, and sometimes by bailiffs of hundreds, to take man's meat, horse's meat, and dog's meat, of the tenants and inhabitants within the perambulation of the forest, hundred, etc. The land subject to this customis called terra putura. Others, who call it pullture, explain it as a demand in general; and derive it from the monks, who before they were ad-mitted, pulsabant, knocked at the gates for several days together, 4 Inst. 307.