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Chirograph

Chirograph a deed or other public instrument in writing, which anciently

Chirographer, an officer of the Common Pleas, who kept the fines.

with a space between in which was written the word chirographum through which the parchment was cut and one part given

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levied. A fine was said to be engrossed when the chirographer made the indentures of the fine and delivered them to

One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing

Of or pertaining to chirography

A chirographer a writer or engrosser

a fine, a brief of a fine made by the chirographer before it was engrossed. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm.

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