chirograph

The earliest surviving portion of a chirograph in England dates from the middle of the ninth century.

The court provided each party with a copy chirograph of the agreement, which became the purchaser's deed of title to the land.

Gaius refers to two types of document: the chirograph, made by a debtor only, and a syngraph made by both parties.

A more restricted use of the term "chirograph" is to describe a papal decree whose circulation-unlike an encyclical-is limited to the Roman curia.

The Anglo-Saxon charter can take many forms: it can be a lease (often presented as a chirograph), a will, an agreement, a writ, and, most commonly, a grant of land.

'Lay Literacy in Anglo-Saxon England: the Development of the Chirograph' in Anglo Saxon Manuscripts and their Heritage, ed.

Accordingly, their clerks copied out previously issued charters, checked up on the authenticity of the originals, and recorded the deed either in a register or in the form of a chirograph.

Every debt was to be entered upon a chirograph, one part of which was to be kept by the Jewish creditor, and the other preserved in a chest to which only special officials should have access.

A deed indented or indenture is one executed in two or more parts according to the number of parties, which were formerly separated by cutting in a curved or indented line known as the chirograph.

A chirograph (cyrograph) is a medieval document, which has been written in duplicate, triplicate or very occasionally quadruplicate on a single piece of parchment, where the Latin word "chirographum" (or equivalent) has been written across the middle, and then cut through.

Isabella, however, was able to produce the chirograph that showed Maud's participation in the writing of the document; this according to the Common Law signified Maud's agreement to the transaction, and Maud herself was "amerced for litigating a false claim".

The chirograph, Nobile subsidium Liturgiae, established the Consociatio as an "international institute which would be able to make known [to the Holy See] the needs of sacred music, and which would be able to assist in putting the decisions of the supreme ecclesiastical authority relating to sacred music into practice."