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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
The name given by the canonists to deeds of which both parts (that is to say, the copies corresponding to each party) were written on the same piece of parchment, vfith some word or letters of the alphabet written between them, through which the parchment was out in such a manner as to leave half the word on one part and half on the other.
1 Bl. Com. 296; 1 Steph. Com. 482, 483.
It thus corresponded to the chirograph or indenture of the common law. See those titles. Hence it came to mean a deed or writing under the hand and seal of all the parties.
See Tomlins.