See also: Chirograph

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From Middle French chirographe, from Ancient Greek χειρόγραφος (kheirógraphos, written with the hand) χείρ (kheír, hand) + γράφω (gráphō, write).

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chirograph (plural chirographs)

  1. (law, historical) A kind of medieval document written in duplicate (or more) on a single piece of parchment, then cut across a single word, so that each holder of a portion can prove it matches the others.
  2. (law, Catholicism) A papal decree whose circulation, unlike an encyclical, is limited to the Roman curia.
  3. (obsolete) The last part of a fine of land; the "foot of the fine".
    • 1741, The Attorney's Practice in the Court of Common Pleas:
      a Record [] called the Chirograph, or Foot of the Fine

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