court-handn.

/ˈkɔːthand/

Etymology: < 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.

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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > legal

court-handa1616

chancery-hand1660

law-hand1731

secretary1770

charter-hand1888

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. ii. 93 He can make Obligations, and write Court hand .

c1640 Capt. Underwit ii. i, in A. H. Bullen Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1883) II. 339 Papers defil'd with Court hand and long dashes, Or Secretarie lines.

1650 in Neal Hist. Purit. (1738) IV. 32 All writs shall be in a legible hand, and not in court-hand.

1731 Act 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.

1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 198. ⁋3 Ability to draw a lease and read the court hands.

1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iii. xi. 168 By no means employ a scrivener, who may write it in such an unintelligible court-hand, that Satan himself could not understand it.

1776–1879 A. Wright Court Hand Restored (ed. 9) Introd. p. x I have pitched upon the Court-Hand and its Contractions, as the best and most difficult of the Old Law Hands.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 682/1 The court or charter hand was used [in the 13th–15th cents.] for charters, title-deeds, papal bulls, &c.

1915 Johnson & 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.

1960 C. 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.

1969 M. 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’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	court-hand
释义	court-handn. /ˈkɔːthand/ Etymology: < 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. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > legal court-handa1616 chancery-hand1660 law-hand1731 secretary1770 charter-hand1888 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. ii. 93 He can make Obligations, and write Court hand . View more context for this quotation c1640 Capt. Underwit ii. i, in A. H. Bullen Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1883) II. 339 Papers defil'd with Court hand and long dashes, Or Secretarie lines. 1650 in Neal Hist. Purit. (1738) IV. 32 All writs shall be in a legible hand, and not in court-hand. 1731 Act 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. 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 198. ⁋3 Ability to draw a lease and read the court hands. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iii. xi. 168 By no means employ a scrivener, who may write it in such an unintelligible court-hand, that Satan himself could not understand it. 1776–1879 A. Wright Court Hand Restored (ed. 9) Introd. p. x I have pitched upon the Court-Hand and its Contractions, as the best and most difficult of the Old Law Hands. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 682/1 The court or charter hand was used [in the 13th–15th cents.] for charters, title-deeds, papal bulls, &c. 1915 Johnson & 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. 1960 C. 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. 1969 M. 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’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.a1616
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