Putative: Alleged; supposed; reputed.
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Putative
(Adj) When a belief, faith or practice is accepted as per a custom, practice or situation, if such believes, faith or practices are not proven wrong , then such beliefs, faith or practices are termed as punitive.
Putative - Alleged; supposed; reputed.
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putative father The alleged or reputed father of an illegitimate child.
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quash To annul or make void; e.g., to quash a writ or a search warrant.
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.
putative father: The person said to be the father of a child but who has not yet been medically or legally declared to be the legal father. (See also genetic testing, legal parent, paternity.)
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PUTATIVE. A reputed father. Vide Putative father.
FATHOM. A measure of length, equal to six feet.
Putative - commonly accepted or supposed; assumed to exist or to have existed.
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TERMS BEGINNING WITH Q
Quash - To vacate or void a summons, subpoena, etc.
PF
Putative Father
Physical custody
A child custody decision which grants the right to organize and administer the day to day residential care of a child. This is usually combined with legal custody.
The 1965 act ended national quotas and substituted putative hemispheric caps that seemed to limit immigration to less than half a million a year.
A child described merely as a child with which the mother is enceinte, without mentioning its putative father; or if the testator express a belief that the child is his own and provide for it under that impression, ...
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