Documents

[Lat. documenta, from docere, to show.] Written instraments adduced for the purpose of showing or proving a claim or title, or other matter in controversy; evidences of title.* This term was anciently applied in particular to the BTidences of title to real property, or muniments of title, {ijuihuB ju8 pr(Bdiorum firma-' turi) and otherwise called telligrapha. Spelman, See Telligraphum, Documents are a species of instruments of evidence, and, according to a modern writer on eyidence, " properly include all material substances on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol. Thus, the wooden score on which a baker and his customers indicate by notches the number of loaves of bread supplied, the old exchequer tallies, and such like, are documents as much as the most elaborate deed."

Best on Emd. 238.