1860 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lex. (ed. 2) 40/1 Allograph, a document not written by any of the parties thereto.

1987 B. A. Garner Dict. Mod. Legal Usage 35/1 An allograph is an agent's writing or signature for the principal.

1876 J. Kirkpatrick Mackenzie's Stud. Rom. Law (ed. 4) 281/2 An ‘allograph’ will had to be signed by the testator, or by a testis octavus for him if he could not write.

1933 Jrnl. Egyptian Archaeol. 19 89 The determining difference..[was] possibly that the civil will was holograph and the praetorian allograph.

1963 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 12 731 Some countries..allow holograph wills only with witnesses; others do not require witnesses; the number of witnesses to allograph forms varies.

2007 Renaissance Q. 60 196 Separate sections are devoted to editions of Ronsard's works—including all extant autograph and allograph manuscripts.

1951 E. Pulgram in Word 7 15 Each hic et nunc realization of a grapheme..can be recognized as belonging to a certain class... All graphs so identifiable are allographs of a given grapheme.

1952 Stud. in Bibliogr. 5 34 Difference in allographs of the same grapheme, viz., v:u, þ:th, lower-case letter: capital letter, and ff:F.

1983 Use of Eng. Spring 54 The sentence stops include..question-mark and exclamation mark, which are technically allographs of the full-stop.

2000 G. Kara in C. E. Bosworth & M. S. Asimov Hist. Civilizations Central Asia IV. ii. xiii. 336 The Uighur script and its orthography had no more than 15 or 16 graphemes... Many of them have 3 or 4 combinatorial/positional allographs.

1961 Anthropol. Linguistics 3 i. 65 One of the three allographs for /k/ of the Latin alphabet leaves the trace of an Etruscan restriction: C before /e i/, K before /a/, and Q only before /u/.

2000 A. L. Sihler Lang. Hist. 196 In later Latin..it is clear that y and i are merely allographs.