law-handn.
/ˈlɔːhand/, U.S. /ˈlɔˌhænd/, /ˈlɑˌhænd/ The style of hand-writing used for legal documents. Also occasionally, matter written in this hand.
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court-handa1616
chancery-hand1660
law-hand1731
secretary1770
charter-hand1888
1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 98 It is not the Lawyers that have invented these Law-hands, to keep their clients in ignorance.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 302 The common Round-hand, various Law-hands, and various Short-hands.
1776 J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 433 You must make yourself sufficiently acquainted with law-french and with the abbreviated law-hand, to read and understand the cases reported in these books.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xlvii. 455 An immense desert of law-hand and parchment.
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