Letters
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
An instrument giving authority: a written appointment or authority by, and under the seal of, a court. Letters of administration, attorney, marque and reprisal, close or clause, patent: see those titles. Letters of credit, of exchange; V. BUI, III.
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Letters of request: a mode of beginning a suit originally in the Court of Arches, instead of the Consistory Court. Letters testamentary: the instrument of authority and appointment, given an executor by the proper court.