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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 deeds, agreements, title papers, letters, receipts, and other written instruments used to prove a fact. In Civil Law. Evidence delivered in however, applied principally to the testimony of witnesses.

Savigny, Hist. Rom. Law, § 165.

DODRANS (Lat.) In Roman law. A subdivision of the as, containing nine undae; the proportion of nine-twelfths, or threefourths.

2 Bl. Comm. 462, note; TayL Civ. Law, 492.