putative (putativ)

[F. putatif = Sp. Pg putativo, Thus things indifferent, being esteem'd useful or pious, became customary, and then came for reverence into a putative and usurp'd authority. Jer. Taylor , Di uasive from Popery, II. i. § 3. Her putative parents had impre ed, On their departure, their enjoinment. Browning, Ring and Book, I. 175. Putative marriage, in canon law, a marriage contracted in violation of an impediment, but in good faith on the part of at least one party.