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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 art or cunning rightly to form and make written instruments. It is either judicial or extrajudicial; the latter being wholly occupied with puch instruments as concern matters not yet judicially in controversy, such as instruments of agreements or contracts, and testaments or last wills.

Wharton.