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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

Deed-poll

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

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)

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Chirograph

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.

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

Pells, Clerk of the

Pells, Clerk of the, an officer in the Exchequer, who entered every seller's bill on the parchment-rolls, the roll of receipts, and the roll of disbursements. Abolished.

Empannel

Empannel [fr. panne, Fr.], the writing or entering by the sheriff, on a parchment, schedule or roll of paper, the names of a jury summoned by him, Cowel.

False pretence, obtaining property

name of any other person, or the seal of any corporate body or society, upon any paper or parchment in order that the same may be afterwards made or converted into, or used or dealt with as,

Impanel, or impannel

Impanel, or impannel, the writing and entering of the names of a jury in a parchment schedule by the sheriff.

Ingrossator

Ingrossator, means 'An engrosser' a clerk who writes records or instruments or parchment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 786

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