Charta cyrographata
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat.
In old English law
A chirographed charter; a charter executed in two parts, and cut through the middle, (scinditur per medium,) where the word cyrographum, or chirographum was written in large letters. Bract. fol.
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See Chirograph. CHARTA (or CARTA) DE FORESTA. L. Lat.
In old English law
The charter of the forest. A charter or ordinance containing the laws of forest, granted in the ninth year of the reign of Henry III., the provisions of which were previously included in Magna Charta.
1 Reeves' Hist. Eng. Law, 254, et seq. Crabb's Hist. E. L. 186, c. 11.