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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
10 conveyancing.
A deed executed or purporting to be executed in parts, between two or more parties, and distin. guished by having the edge of the paper ot parchment on whieh it is written indented or cut at the top in a particular matner, This was formerly done at the top or sie, in & line resembling the teeth of a saw; a for mality derived from the ancient practice of dividing chirographs; but the cutting is now made either in a waving line, or more commonly by notching or nicking the paper at