Purport - Indian Laws - General

Purport In Black s Law Dictionary , [Sixth edn., West Publishing Company, 1990], the word purport is defined as under. Purport - Meaning, import, substantial meaning; substance; legal effect. The purport of an instrument means the substance of it as it appears on the face of the instrument, and is distinguished from tenor , which means an exact copy. Purport - To convey, imply, or profess outwardly; to have the appearance of being, intending, claiming. In Words and Phrases (permanent edition),1, the words purport , purported and purported to convey are explained as under: Purport The purport of a written instrument is usually its meaning; what it intends to show, what is apparent; what it shows on its face. Purport means the substance of an instrument, as it appears on the face of it to every eye that reads it, and tenor means an exact copy of it; and, where an instrument is stated according to its tenor, the purport of it must necessarily appear. Purported Implication of word purported is that something is deficient or amiss; everything is not as it is intended to be. Purport to Convey Where deed recited that it was held by grantor subject to any change grantor might make prior to death, and grantor did not actually deliver the deed, but his wife, the grantee, took it from his private papers after death and claimed title, the deed did not purport to convey the land within terms of statute governing adverse possession in favour of persons claiming under instruments purporting to convey . In LAW LEXICON, [The Lexicon by P. Ramanatha Aiyar, (reprint edn., 1993, p. 1053) 101], the word purport is defined as under: Purport . The word purport , as used in speaking of the purport of an instrument, means the substance thereof as it appears on the face thereof to every eye that reads it. Purport imports what appears on the face of the instrument. It is usually intended to express the substance and effect as appears from the face of the instrument, in distinction from tenor , which means a copy or exactness. Purport means the design or tendency, the meaning or import when used in the expression, An instrument purports . An instrument purports to be a particular instrument which it more or less resembles and this definition applies to a part, as well as the whole, of an instrument. The purport of an instrument means the substance of it, as it appears on the face of it, in the eyes of all who read it. An instrument purports to be that which, on the face of the instrument, it more or less accurately resembles. The definition of purporting is the same whether applicable to the whole or to a part of an instrument. There must be a resemblance more or less accurate . YANALA MALLESHWARI AND ORS. VERSUS ANANTHULA SAYAMMA AND ORS. - 2006 (10) TMI 517 - ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT