Script
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The original or principal instrument, where there are part and counterpart. SCRIPTAE OBLIGATIONES SCRIPTIS tolluntur, et nudi consensus obllgatio, contrario consensu dissolvitur. Written obligagations are dissolved by writing, and obligations of naked agreement by naked agreement to the contrary. SCRIPTORIUM (Law Lat. from seribere, to write). In old records. A place in monasteries, where writing was done.
Spelman.
SCRIPTUM (Lat. from seribere, to write). In old conveyancing. A writing; a thing written. Fleta, lib.
2, c. 60, § 25.
This word, alone, does not import or signify a deed, that is, an instrument under seal.
2 Strange, 814.
Scriptum indentatum, a writing indented; an indenture or deed.
Reynolds, J., 2 Strange, 815.
Scriptum obligatorium, a writing obligatory. The technical name of a bond in old SCRIPTUM INDENTATUM (Law Lat.) A writing indented; an indenture or deed. SCRIPTURA (Lat. from seribere, to write).
In old English law
The act or fact of writing. Fleta, lib.
2, c. 60, § 25.