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Paramount parchment, term denoting the Constitution of India. '...the immunity of the judiciary must be studied with aware allegiance to the scheme and sweep of the Constitution, with insightful homage to the soul of the paramount parchment.' [Union of India v. Sankalchand, AIR 1977 SC 2328 (2366), para 66]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
Parchment
Parchment, skins of sheep dressed for writing [fr. pergamena, Lat.], so called because invented at Pergamus, in Asia Minor, by King Eumenes, when paper, which was in use in Egypt only, was prohibited by Ptolemy to be transported into Asia. It is used for deeds; and was used for writs of summons previously to November 1, 1875. See Judicature Act, 1875, R.S.C. Ord. V., R. 10; Ord. LXVI., R. 3. As to repeal of provision in Coroners Act, 1887, which maintained the use of parchment in the case of inquisitions by coroners of murder and manslaughter till 1916, see Indictments Act, 1915, Sch. II. Indictments may be on durable paper (ibid., Sch. I.)....
palimpsest
A parchment which has been written upon twice the first writing having been erased to make place for the second The erasures of ancient writings were usually carried on in monasteries to allow the production of ecclesiastical texts such as copies of church services and lives of the saints The difficulty of recovering the original text varied with the process used to prepare the parchment for a fresh writing the original texts on parchments which had been washed with lime water and dried were easily recovered by a chemical process but those erased by scraping the parchment and bleaching are difficult to interpret Most of the manuscripts underlying the palimpsests that have been revived are fragmentary but some are of great historical value One Syriac version of the Four Gospels was discovered in 1895 in St Catherines Monastery at Mount Sinai by Mrs Agnes Smith Lewis See also the notes below...
Chirograph
A writing which requiring a counterpart was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment with a space between in which was written the word chirographum through which the parchment was cut and one part given to each party It answered to what is now called a charter party...
Chirograph
Chirograph a deed or other public instrument in writing, which anciently was attested by the subscription and crosses of witnesses: afterwards, to prevent frauds and concealment, people made their deeds of mutual covenant in a script and rescript, or in a part and counterpart, and in the middle between the two copies they drew the capital letters of the alphabet, and then tallied or cut asunder, in an indented manner, the sheet or skin of parchment; which, being delivered to the two parties concerned, were proved authentic by matching with and answering one another. Deeds thus made were denominated syngrapha by the canonists, and with us chirographa, or hand writings. Chirograph was also used for a fine, the manner of engrossing which and cutting the parchment into two pieces was observed in the chirographer's office of the Court of Common Pleas until those assurances by matter of record were abolished by the (English) Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74), 2 Bl. Com. 296...
Deed
Deed [fr. d'd, Sax.; ded gaded, Goth.;daed, Dut.], a formal document on paper or parchment duly signed, sealed, and delivered. It is either an indenture (factum inter partes) needing an actual indentation [(English) Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 5], reproduced by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 56 (2), made between two or more persons in different interests, or a deed-poll (charta de una parte) made by a single person or by two or more persons having similar interests. By the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 57, a deed may be described according to the nature of the transaction, e.g., 'this lease,' 'this mortgage,' etc., or as a 'deed' and not habitually by the word 'indenture.'The requisites of a deed are these:-(1) Sufficient parties and a proper subject of assurance.(2) It must be written, engrossed, printed, or lithographed, or partly written or engrossed, and partly printed or lithographed in any character or in any language, on paper, vellum, or parchm...
Deed-poll
Deed-poll, a single deed in the form of a manifesto or declaration to all the world of the grantor's act and intention. If there be no recital it usually speaks in the first person, but where recitals are introduced it speaks in the third person. See DEED.A deed poll is a deed made by and expressing the active intention of one party only, or made by two or more persons joining together in expressing a common active intention of them all. A deed poll is so called because the parchment required for such deeds has usually been shared even which evidences some act or agreement between them other than the mere consent to join in expressing the same active intention on the part of all. An indenture derives its name from the fact that the parchment on which such a deed was written was indented or cut with a waving or indented line at the top. Co Litt 229, Halsbury's Laws of England 13, para 3, p. 5....
Label
Label [fr. labellum, Lat.], narrow slip of paper or parchment affixed to a deed, writing, to writ, hanging at or out of the same; and an appending seal is called a label (Jac. Law Dict.). As to the seller of a mixed article protecting himself from the penalties of the (English) Sale of Food and Drugs Act,1875, by means of a label, see s. 8 of the Act, and the (English) Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 31), s. 4, and see ADULTERATION.Means a display of written marked, stamped, printed or graphic matter affixed to, or appearing upon, any container. [Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Food (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution Act, 1992 (41 of 1992), s. 2 (1) (h)]Means any written, marked, stamped, printed or graphic matter, affixed to, or appearing upon, any package. [Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986 (60 of 1986), s. 2 (d)]Means any written, printed or graphic matter on the immediate package and on every oth...
Paper
Paper, includes vellum parchment or any other material or which an instrument may be written, Rajasthan Stamp Act, 1999, s. 2(xxvi).Paper. As to the paper on which proceedings in the Supreme Court must be printed, see PRINTING.It includes vellum, parchment or any other material on which an instrument may be written. [Indian Stamp Act, 1899, s. 2 (18)]The word 'paper' admittedly not having been defined either in the U.P. Sales Tax Act, 1948 or the rules made thereunder, it has to be understood according to the aforesaid well-established canon of construction in the sense in which persons dealing in and using the article understand it. It is, therefore, necessary to know what is paper as commonly or generally understood. The said word which is derived from the name of reedy plant papyrus and grows abundantly along the Nile river in Egypt is explained in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (volume 2) (Third Edition) as: A substance composed of fibers interlaced into a compact web, made ...
escrow
escrow [Anglo-French escroue deed delivered on condition, literally, scroll, strip of parchment, from Old French escroe] 1 : an instrument and esp. a deed or money or property held by a third party to be turned over to the grantee and become effective only upon the fulfillment of some condition 2 : a fund or deposit designed to serve as an escrow in escrow : held as an escrow : in trust as an escrow [had $1000 in escrow to pay taxes] compare trust vt : to cause to be held as an escrow : place in escrow ...
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