Lat. In civil and old English law. Opportunity or means of access. In old English law. A copy. Copia Ubelli, the copy of a libel. Reg. Orig. 58. Copia libelli deliberandi The name Of a writ that lay where a man could not get a copy of a libel at the hands of a spiritual judge, to have the same delivered to him. Reg. Ong. 51. Copia vera. In Scotch practice. A true copy. Words written at the top of copies of instruments.
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