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CHIROGRAPH, conveyancing. Signifies a deed or public instrument in writing.
Expanded Legal Definition of Certainty of TermsChirograph A medieval form of contract which allowed for several verifiable authentic versions.
A deed indented or indenture is one executed in two or more parts according to the number of parties, which were formerly separated by cutting in a curved or indented line known as the chirograph.
Examples of the former are the actions empti-venditi, locati-conducti, negitiorum gestorum, etc.; of the latter, the actions ex mutus, ex chirographo, ex stipilatu, ex indebito, actions proescriptis verbis, etc.
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 See also: Agreement, Fraud, Term, Reference, Transaction
  
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