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Pourpresture or purpresture [fr. pourpris, Fr., an inclosure], anything done to the nuisance or hurt of the King's demesnes, or the highways, etc., by enclosure or building, endeavouring to make that private which ought to be public; see Co. Litt. 277 b.The difference between a purpresture and a public nuisance is that purpresture is an invasion of the jus privatum of the Crown; but where the jus publicum is violated it is a nuisance. Skene makes three sorts of this offence: (1) against the Crown; (2) against the lord of the fee; (3) against a neighbour-2 Inst. 38. Purpresture within a forest was where any man made any manner of encroachment upon the forest either by building or inclosure or by using of any liberty or privilege without lawful warrant so to do (Williams on Rights of Common, p. 231). See also Glanv. i. 9, c. 11....
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