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liege poustie Chiefly Sc.|liːdʒˈpaʊstɪ|
Forms: 4 lege pouste, legge pouste, 5 leg(is po(u)ste, 6 leg powster, liege pouste, 7– liege poustie.
[a. OF. lige poesté, med.L. ligia potestas: see liege a. and poustie.]
The state of being in health and full possession of one's faculties. Now only in Sc. Law (see quot. 1882).
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 5606 Þai wrethed God in þair legge pousté. 1375Barbour Bruce v. 165 Bot and I lif in lege pouste, Thair ded sall rycht weill vengit be. 1458Burgh Rec. Peebles (1872) 129 Scho had cofit fra hir son in his leg poste qwyl he was lewand. 1462Ibid. 143 The quhylkis scho alegit was gevyn to her by..her fadyr in his legis pouste. 15..Bk. Alexander (Bannatyne Club) 361 Gif I leif lang in liege pouste. c1560Aberd. Reg. XXIV. (Jam.), Ane testament maid be vmquhill Alexr. Kay baxter in his leg powster. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. ii. xviii. §7 It is lesome to ilk man to give ane reasonabill portion of his lands, to quhom he pleases, induring his lifetime, in his liege poustie. a1768Erskine Instit. Law Scot. iii. Tit. viii. §97 (1773) I. 595 Where the ancestor has validly obliged himself in liege poustie to grant a deed. 1882Bell's Dict. Law Scot., Liege poustie, is that state of health which gives a person full power to dispose mortis causa, or otherwise, of his heritable property. |