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).
| 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 5606 Þai wrethed God in þair legge pousté. 1375 Barbour Bruce v. 165 Bot and I lif in lege pouste, Thair ded sall rycht weill vengit be. 1458 Burgh Rec. Peebles (1872) 129 Scho had cofit fra hir son in his leg poste qwyl he was lewand. 1462 Ibid. 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. c 1560 Aberd. Reg. XXIV. (Jam.), Ane testament maid be vmquhill Alex{supr}. Kay baxter in his leg powster. 1609 Skene 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. a 1768 Erskine Instit. Law Scot. iii. Tit. viii. §97 (1773) I. 595 Where the ancestor has validly obliged himself in liege poustie to grant a deed. 1882 Bell'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. |