to put

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
TO PUT, pleading. To select, to demand; as, the said C D puts himself upon 
the country; that is, he selects the trial by jury, as the mode of settling 
the matter in dispute, and does not rely upon an issue in law. Gould, Pl. c. 
6. part 1, Sec. 19. 
    

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