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The first draft or rough minutes of an instrument or transaction; the original copy of a dispatch, treaty, or other document. Brande. A document serving as the preliminary to, or opening of, any diplomatic transaction. In old Scotch, practice. A book, marked by the clerk register, and delivered to a notary on his admission, in which he was directed to insert all the instruments … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
In Spanish law. The original draft or writing of an instrument which remains in the possession of the escribano, or notary. White, New Recop. lib. 8, tit 7, c. 5, … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
As appears by the record. In the Latin phraseology of pleading, this was the proper formula for making reference to a record. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
civil law. He who not being the tutor of a pupil or minor, has administered his property or affairs as if he had been, whether he thought himself legally invested with the authority of a tutor, or not. 2. He who marries a woman who is tutrix, becomes, by the marriage, a protutor. The protutor is equally responsible as the tutor. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
As appears by the record. This phrase is frequently used in pleading; as, for example, in debt on a judgment or other matter of record, unless when it is stated is an inducement, it is requisite after slowing the matter of record, to refer to it by the prout patet per recordum. … [Read more...]