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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The designation or indication in an instrument of writing of the time and place when and where it was made. When the place is mentioned in the date of a deed, the law intends, unless the contrary appears, that it was executed at the place of the date.
Plowd. 7b.
The word is derived from the Latin datum, given; because, when instruments were in Latin, the form ran datum, etc., given the day of, etc. The date of an instrument is that stated therein as that of its execution, rather than the actual time of execution.
32 N. J. Law, 515.