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Cocket

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Coquet. [L. Lat. cockettum.] In English law. A seal belonging to the custom-house.

Reg. Orig. 192.

Pars sigilli quod dicitur cocket. Id. ibid.

3 Salk. 172.

A scroll or piece of parchment, sealed and delivered by the officers of the custom-house to merchants, as a warrant that their merchandizes are customed.

Stat. 11 Hen. VI., c. 16.

Anciently called litera de coketto, or literae testimoniales de cocketto.

Reg. Orig. 279. Cowell. Blount.

Spelman, voc.

Cockettum.