chirograph (English, noun)
expansion: chirograph (plural chirographs)
Senses:
topics: law
glosses: 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.
tags: historical
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
law
glosses: A papal decree whose circulation, unlike an encyclical, is limited to the Roman curia.
glosses: The last part of a fine of land; the "foot of the fine".
tags: obsolete
Forms:
form: chirographs
tags: plural