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PAPER

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A written or printed document or instrument A document filed or introduced in evidence in a suit at law, as, ia the phrase “papers in the case” and in “papers on appeal.” Any writing or printed document, including letters, memoranda, legal or business documents, and books of account as in the constitutional provision which protects the people from unreasonable searches and seizures in respect to their “papers” as well as their houses and persons. A written or printed evidence of debt particularly a promissory note or a bill of exchange, as in the phrases “accommodation paper” and “commercial paper.”
In English, practice. The list of causes or cases intended for argument called “the paper of causes.” 1 Tidd, Pr. 504. Accommodation paper. See that title. Commercial paper. See COMMERCIAL. Paper blockade. See BLOCKADE. Paper book. In practice. A printed collection or abstract In methodical order, of the pleadings, evidence, exhibits, and proceedings in a cause, or whatever else may be necessary to a full understanding of it, prepared for the use of the judges upon a hearing or argument on appeal. Copies of the proceedings on an issrp in law or demurrer, of cases, and of the proceedings on error, prepared for the use of the judges, and delivered to them previous to bringing the cause to argument. 3 Bl. Comm. 317; Archb. Now Pr. 353; 5 Man.

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