Tabula
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
A Latin word translated table or tablet; the name of a thin sheet of wood, which, when covered with wax, was used for writing. An instrument written on such a tablet was also called tabula; much as, in English, " table " is applied to a writing exhibiting many