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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 665 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PURLIEU , a word used of the outlying parts of a See also:

place or See also:district, sometimes in a derogatory sense. It was a See also:term of the old See also:English See also:forest See also:law (q.v.), and meant, as defined by Manwood (See also:Treatise of the Forest See also:Laws), " a certain territory of ground adjoining unto the forest,. . .which. . .was once forest-See also:land and afterwards disafforested by the perambulations made for the severing of the new forests from the old." The owner of See also:free-lands in the purlieu to the yearly value of See also:forty shillings was known as a " purlieu-See also:man " or " purley-man." There seems no doubt that "purlieu" or "purley " represents the Anglo-See also:French purale, puralee (O. Fr. pouraler, puraler, to go through, See also:Lat. perambulare), a legal term meaning properly a perambulation to determine the boundaries of a See also:manor, See also:parish, &c.

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