Duplicate

i The double of anything; an original repeated; a document the same as another; a transcript equivalent to the first or original writing; a counterpart: as, a duplicate bond, certificate, check or draft, land-warrant, receipt, will.

See Original, 2.

A document essentially the same as another.2 A document the same in all respects as some other document, from.which it is indistinguishable in its essence and operation.' "Duplicate," written across the face of a draft given to replace a lost draft of the same tenor, imports that the draft is to take the place of the original, that no new liabllify is created by it.' Each duplicate writing is complete evidence of the intention of the parties. The deliberate destruction of one, as, of a duplicate will, creates a presumption that the other was also to be destroyed.^ See Evidence, Secondary. Duplicate United States bonds will be issued, when the originals'are defaced or destroyed.^