Protocol

A record or register. Among the Romans, protocollum was a writing at' the head of the first page of the paper used by the notaries or tabellions. Nov. 44..In France, the minutes of notarial acts were formerly transcribed on registers, By the German law it signifies the minutes of any transaction. Enc. Am. "Protocol." In the latter sense, the word has of late been received into international law. Id. PROTOCOLLUM (Graeco-Lat.) In the civil law. A brief note or memorandum of a transaction made by a notary, for the purpose of being afterwards extended or written out in full (quod breviter et succinate notatur a tabellione, ut extendi deinde atque absolvi possit). Calv. Lex. A hasty note of a transaction, as it were prima colleetio rerum, the first getting together of hiatters. Id. Protocollum, among the Romans, seems to have originally signified a formal caption or heading of instruments drawn by tabel Uones (notaries); or, more particularly, a writing at the head of the paper used by these officers, containing the name of the comes sacrarum largitionum (chief officer of the imperial treasury), and the time when the instrument was made.

Nov. 44.

It seems to have served the purpose of an official stamp. In the forty-fourth Novel, the tabel Uones are forbidden to write their instruments upon any other paper than such as contained this protocollum at the head.