单词 | chirographer |
释义 | chirographern. 1. Law. The officer appointed to ‘engross fines’ (chirographs), in the Court of Common Pleas. (Abolished in 1833.) ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > charter or deed conveying property > [noun] > charter or deed conveying land > (part of) indenture of a fine > one who records chirographer1400 1285 Act 13 Edw. I c. 44 De Cirographariis pro cirographo faciendo.] 1400 Act 2 Hen. IV c. 8 §1 Loffice de Cirogrofer en la Comone bank du Roi est lessez a ferme. 1581 Act 23 Eliz. c. 3 § 7 The Chirographer of Fynes of the Common Plees for the tyme being. 1589 Sir T. Smith's Common-welth (rev. ed.) ii. xiv. 74 The Cirographer..maketh Indentures tripartite. 1594 W. West Symbolæogr.: 2nd Pt. ii. §61 Delivered to the Cyrographer of fines to be ingrossed and proclaimed. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 62/1 In the Courts of Common Pleas..the Chyrographer doth Enter and Ingrose Fines acknowledged. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 351 There are indentures made, or engrossed, at the chirographer's office, and delivered to the cognizor and the cognizee. 1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors II. xxxviii. 11 The wealthy sinecure of Chirographer of the Common Pleas. 2. ‘He that exercises or professes the art or business of handwriting’ (Johnson, 1755); a copying clerk. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writer > [noun] > copyist librarya1382 scribe1535 exemplifier1552 stationer1576 copier1597 transcriber1610 transcriptor1617 copy-clerk1623 exscribera1631 bibliographer1656 calligrapher1662 librarian1670 copist1682 copyist1699 calligraph1801 copiator1811 calligraphist1816 copying clerk1836 chirographer1848 1848 M. W. Savage Bachelor of Albany xx. 216 The seedy and dilapidated appearance of the old chirographer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1400 |
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