inspeximusn.
/ɪnˈspɛksɪməs/ Law.
A charter in which the grantor avouches to have inspected an earlier charter which he recites and confirms. Also attributive.
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1282–3 Rolls Parl. I. 225/1 Carta confirmationis libertatum [sit] sub hac forma: Edwardus &c. Inspeximus Cartam donationis..quam Dominus H. Rex..fecit.
a1558 R. Brooke Graunde Abridgem. (1573) ii. f. 131v Vne Constat est pledable, contrary dun Inspeximus, car in lun case le patent remayne, et in lauter il est perde.]
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 225 b When Littleton wrote, no constat, or inspeximus, of the king's letters patents were availeable to be shewed forth in court, but the letters patents themselves under seal.
1658 tr. E. Coke Reports v. 53 b It is called Inspeximus, because it begins after the King's style with this word Inspeximus: and it is called exemplification a re ipsa, because the record is thereby exemplified.
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 332 As appears by an Inspeximus of Q. Elizabeth, granted this Corporation.
1783 T. Warton Specimen Hist. Oxfordshire (ed. 2) 66 (note) This road is specified, by the names of strata and magna via, in an Inspeximus-charter of Henry the third to Tarent-abbey in Dorsetshire.
1885 Notes & Queries 6th Ser. XII. 411/1 An inspeximus consists of a recital that a previous document has been inspected, and a confirmatory regrant thereof.
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