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court-hand|ˈkɔəthænd|
[f. court n.1 11.]
The style of handwriting in use in the English law-courts until the reign of Geo. II, when it was abolished by statute.
1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. ii. 100 He can make Obligations, and write Court hand. c1640Shirley Capt. Underwit ii. i. in Bullen O. Pl. II. 339 Papers defil'd with Court hand and long dashes, Or Secretarie lines. 1650in Neal Hist. Purit. (1738) IV. 32 All writs shall be in a legible hand, and not in court-hand. 1731Act 4 Geo. II, c. 26 Be it enacted..That..all Proceedings whatsoever in any Courts of Justice..shall be written in such a common legible Hand and Character, as the Acts of Parliament are usually ingrossed in..and not in any Hand commonly called Court Hand, and in Words at Length and not abbreviated. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 198 ⁋3 Ability to draw a lease and read the court hands. 1755Smollett Quix. (1803) I. 242 By no means employ a scrivener, who may write it in such an unintelligible court-hand, that Satan himself could not understand it. 1776–1879A. Wright Court Hand Restored Introd. (ed. 9) p. x, I have pitched upon the Court-Hand and its Contractions, as the best and most difficult of the Old Law Hands. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 682/1 The court or charter hand was used [in the 13th–15th cents.] for charters, title-deeds, papal bulls, &c. 1915Johnson & Jenkinson Eng. Court Hand p. xiii, To put before the student a large..series of examples of the kind of writing usually to be found in English documents from the Conquest to a.d. 1500. The survival of debased forms of this type of writing in modern legal engrossing has caused it to be called..‘Court Hand’; and..this unscientific name will serve well enough to distinguish it from ‘Book Hand’, the more leisurely type of writing employed in copying MSS. 1960C. E. Wright Eng. Vernacular Hands 3/1 Written about a.d. 1200... A vigorous, individualistic hand closely related to the court-hand of the time. 1969M. B. Parkes Eng. Cursive Bk. Hands 1250–1500 p. xvi, Scripts of this kind have usually been referred to in England as ‘Court Hands’, or ‘Charter Hands’. |