SCRIP

Certificates of ownership, either absolute or conditional, of shares in a public company, corporate profits, etc. Pub. St Mass. 1882, p. 1295. A scrip certificate (or shortly "scrip") is an acknowledgment by the projectors of a company or the issuers of a loan that the person named therein (or more commonly the holder for the time being of the certificate) is entitled to a … [Read more...] about SCRIP

Scribes Journal of Legal Writing … [Read more...] about Scribes J. Legal Writing

Latin, meaning To write is to act. … [Read more...] about SCRIBERE EST AGERE

Lat. A scribe; a secretary. Scriba regis, a king's secretary; a chancellor. Spelman. Scribere est agere. To write is to act Treasonable words set down in writing amount to overt acts of treason. 2 Rolle, 89; 4 Bl. Comm. 80; Broom, Max. 312, 967. … [Read more...] about SCRIBA

A word used in some of the United States for scrowl or scroll. "The word 'seal/ written in a scrawl attached to the name of an obligor, makes the instrument a specialty." Comerford v. Cobb, 2 Fla. 418. … [Read more...] about SCRAWL