Script
Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
The original or principal instrument, where there are part and counterpart.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Where instruments are executed in part and counterpart, the original or principal is se called.
In English probate practice. A will, codicll, draft of will or codicil, or written instructions for the same. If the wlll is destroyed, a copy or any paper embodying ita contents becomes a script, even though not made under the direction of the testator. Browne, Prob. Pr. 280.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
A writing; a paper offered for probate as a will.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
6 A writing; an original writing. In England, a testamentary document of any kind, including even written instructions for drafting the document. Aflldavit of script. An afl Sdavit attached to the paper relied upon in a testamentary cause. 6
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Generally, any writing. In English probate practice, it is used of a testamentary document of any kind, whether a will, codicil, draft of a will the same. Thus it is said that, in testamentary causes, the plaintifl and defendant must, within eight days of the entry of an appearance on the part of the defendant, file their affidavits of scripts; meaning, of whatever testamentary papers they rely upon.