释义 |
law-hand The style of hand-writing used for legal documents. Also occas., matter written in this hand.
1731Gentl. Mag. I. 98 It is not the Lawyers that have invented these Law-hands, to keep their clients in ignorance. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 302 The common Round-hand, various Law-hands, and various Short-hands. 1776J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 433 You must make yourself sufficiently acquainted with law-french and with the abbreviated law-hand, to read and understand the cases reported in these books. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xlvii, An immense desert of law-hand and parchment. |