Original

1, adj.

The first in order or time; primary; principal; leading: as, an original — acquisition, bill, compact, conveyance, copy, entry, jurisdiction, occupant, owner, party, patentee, proceeding, process, promise, writ, qq. v. 2, n. An original document or instrument. Duplicate originals; single original. "Single" when there is but one original instrument; "duplicate" when there are two. In the case of a printed document, all the impressions are originals, or in the nature of duplicate originals, and any copy will be primary evidence.^

See Copy.

Originality

In the law of patents, the finding out, the contriving, the creating of something which did not exist, and was not known before, and which can be made useful and advantageous in the pursuits of life, or which can add to the enjoyments of mankind.*

See Invention.