Muniment
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Any deed, document, or instrument of evidence whereby title appears. Mimiments of title is a general expression for all the means of evidence by which an owner, corporate or individual, may defend title to real property; and the room set apart in old English corporate buildings and offices for preserving such papers was called the muniment room. The word has been also spelled miniment, but this is a corruption.