pour party

[Fr., from pour = for, and parti =a part, a party.] Law: The division among partners of lands which were formerly held in common. pôur-par-tě, v. t. [POUR PARTY, 8. ] Law : To divide the lands which fall to parceners. ( Wharton .) pour-point, s. [Fr., from pour =for, and poin dre (Lat. pun go )=to prick.] Old Cost.: The close-fitting, quilted doublet commonly worn by soldiers and civilians in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; a gambeson. It continued to be worn as late as the time of Charles 11. Its invention is ascribed to the Crusaders, by whom it was adopted as a substitute for heavy armor.