Monument
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Anything by which the memory of a person or an event is preserved or perpetuated. A tomb where a dead body has been deposited. Monumenta que nos recorda vocamus sunt veritatis et vetustatis vestigia.
Co. Litt. 118.
Monuments, which we call “records,” are the vestiges of truth and antiquity.