PURCHASE  , in its See also:

• COMMON

common sense, that which is acquired by the See also:

• PAYMENT (Fr. paiement, from payer, to pay; Lat. pacare, to appease, pax, peace)

payment of See also:

• MONEY

money or its See also:

• EQUIVALENT

equivalent . The originalmeaning of the word (O . Fr. pourchacier, pourchasser, &c., popular, See also:

• LAT

Lat. See also:

• PRO

pro-captiare) was to pursue eagerly, hence to acquire . Thus " purchase " was See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early used by the lawyers (e.g . See also:

• BRITTON
• BRITTON, JOHN (1771–1857)

Britton, in 1292) for the acquirement of See also:

• PROPERTY

property by other means than See also:

• INHERITANCE

inheritance or See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, including acquirement by See also:

• ESCHEAT (O. Fr. esthete, from escheoir, to fall to one's share; Lat. excidere, to fall out)

escheat, See also:

• PRESCRIPTION

prescription, occupancy, See also:

• ALIENATION (from Lat. alienus, belonging to another)

alienation and See also:

• FORFEITURE (from " forfeit," originally an offence, and hence a fine exacted as a penalty for such; derived through the O. Fr. forfeit, from the late Lat. foris factum, a trespass, that which is done foris, outside)

forfeiture; more generally, purchase in law means acquisition of See also:

• LAND

land by bargain or See also:

• SALE
• SALE, GEORGE (c. 1697-1736)
• SALE, SIR ROBERT HENRY (1782—1845)

sale, according to the law of " vendor and purchaser " (see See also:

• CONVEYANCING

CONVEYANCING) . A later development of meaning is found in the use of the word for a See also:

• MECHANICAL

mechanical contrivance by which See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power can be excited or applied, a hold or fulcrum . This first appears (16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century) in the nautical use of the verb, to haul up a rope or See also:

• CABLE (from Late Lat. capulum, a halter, from capere, to take hold of)
• CABLE, GEORGE WASHINGTON (1844– )

cable by some mechanical See also:

• DEVICE

device, the See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea being apparently to " gain " See also:

• ADVANTAGE

advantage over the rope See also:

• BIT (from the verb " to bite," either in the sense of a piece bitten off, or an act of biting, or a thing that bites or is bitten)

bit by bit .