Chippingavel

A toll for buying and selling. A tax imposed on goods brought for sale. Whishaw; Blount CHIRGEM0TE (spelled, also, Chirchgemote, Circgemote, Kirlcmote; Sax. circgemote, from circ, civic, or cyric, a church, and gemot, a meeting or assembly). In Saxon Law. An ecclesiastical court or assembly (Jorum ecclesiasticum); a synod; a meeting in a church or vestry. Blount; Spelm. Gloss.; Hen. I. cc.

4, 8; Co. 4th Inst 321; Cunningh.

Law Diet CHIROGRAPH (Lat chirographa). A deed or public instrument in writing. prevent frauds and concealments, deeds of mutual covenant were made in a script and rescript, or in a part aud counter-part: and In the middle, between the two copies, they drew the capital letters of the alphabet, and then tallied, or cut asunder In an indented manner, the sheet or skin of parchment, one of which parts being delivered to each of the parties were proved authentic by matching with and answering to one another. Deeds thus made were denominated synrjrapha by the canonists, because that word, instead of the letters of the alphabet or the word chirograph/urn, was used.

2 Bla. Com. 296.

This method of preventing counterfeiting, or of detecting counterfeits, is now used, by having some ornament or some word engraved or printed at one end of certificates of stocks, checks, and a variety of other instruments, which are bound up In a book, and, after they are executed, are cut asunder through 6uch ornament or word. See Syngraph; Indent. The last part of a fine of land. It is called, more commonly, the foot of the fine. It is an instrument of writing, beginning with these words: "This is the final agreement," etc. It concludes the whole matter, reciting the parties, day, year, and place, and before whom the fine was acknowledged and levied. Cruise, Dig. t.

35, c. 2, s. 52.

In Civil and Canon Law. An instrument written out and subscribed by the hands of the king or prince. An instrument written out by the parties and signed by them. The Normans, destroying these chirogra/pha, called the instruments substituted in their place charta (charters), and declared that these charta should be verified by the seal of the signer with the attestation of three or four witnesses. Du Cange; Cowell.