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Terms vs Chirograph - What's the difference?

terms | chirograph |

As nouns the difference between terms and chirograph

is that terms is while chirograph is (legal|historical) a kind of mediaeval document written in duplicate (or more) on a single piece of parchment, then cut across a single word, so that each holder of a portion can prove it matches the others.

terms

English

Noun

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    chirograph

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia chirograph)
  • (legal, historical) A kind of mediaeval document written in duplicate (or more) on a single piece of parchment, then cut across a single word, so that each holder of a portion can prove it matches the others.
  • (legal, historical) A papal decree whose circulation, unlike an encyclical, is limited to the Roman curia.
  • (obsolete) The last part of a fine of land; the "foot of the fine".
    • (Bouvier)

    See also

    * indenture (Webster 1913)