Counter Letter
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An agreement to recovery where property has been passed by absolute deed with the intention that it shall COUNTER ROLL (Law Fr. eontreroule, conterrolle; Law Lat. contra rotulus). In old English law and practice. A roll kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll. Sheriffs and coroners were anciently required to keep rolls or records of what was done before them. Bracton, fols.
121b, 140b; Britt. c. 1.
Le vicont eit counterrolles ove les coroners, auxybien des appeals come des enquests, etc., the sheriff shall have counter rolls with the coroners, as well of aiipeals as of inquests, etc. St. Westminster I. c.
10.