Tally

Tally man, tally trade

Tally man, tally trade, a system of dealing by which dealers furnish certain articles on credit, upon an agreement for the payment of the stipulated price by certain weekly or monthly instalments, McCull. Comm. Dict. A tally was a common security for money in the days of Edward I. 2 Reeves, ch. 11, p. 253, n. (b). See PEDLARS....

Cutter of the tallies

Cutter of the tallies, an officer in the Exchequer to whom it belonged to provide wood for the tallies, and to cut the sum paid upon them, etc. see TALLY....

Talley, or Tally

Talley, or Tally, a stick cut into two parts, on each whereof is marked, with notches or otherwise, which is due between debtor and creditor. It was the ancient mode of keeping accounts; one part was held by the creditor, and the other by the debtor. The use of tallies in the Exchequer was abolished by 23 Geo. 3, c. 82, and the old tallies ordered to be destroyed by 4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 15, and destroyed they were in a fire which held to the burning down of the Houses of Parliament....

Writer of the tallies

Writer of the tallies, an officer of the Exchequer, who acted as clerk to the auditor of the receipt, who wrote upon the tallies the teeller's bills. See TALLY....

Tally, to tally is to see that two things agree or correspond and it is resumed to be correct, Madras Port Trust v. K.A.P.T. Annamalai Nadar, AIR 1968 Mad 42 (47). [Madras Port Trust Act, (1905), s. 39(3)]...

Under Chamberlains of the Exchequer

Under Chamberlains of the Exchequer, two officers who cleaved the tallies and read them. See TALLY. They also made searches for records in the treasury, and had the custody of Domesday Book. Abolished, Jac. Law Dict....

Countretaille

A counter tally correspondence in sound...

Outkeeper

An attachment to a surveyors compass for keeping tally in chaining...

Score

A notch or incision especially one that is made as a tally mark hence a mark or line made for the purpose of account...

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...

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