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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The title or inscription of any law or statute; because the copyists formerly drew and painted the title of laws and statutes in red letters ( rwbro colore ). Ayliffe, Pand. b.
1, t.
8; Diet. de Jur, The directions in the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England are so called, being, in the authorized version of 1G62, printed in red letters.