leges Edwardi Confessoris (lee-jeez ed-wahr-dI kon-f[schwa]-sor-is), n. [Latin “Laws of Edward the Confessor”] Hist. A legal treatise written between 1130 and 1135, of dubious authority, compiling English law as it stood at the end of the reign of Henry I. “[W]e have a book [leges Edwardi Confessoris] written in Latin which expressly purports to give […]
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public writing. 1. The written acts or records of a government (or its constituent units) that are not constitutionally or statutorily protected from disclosure. • Laws and judicial records, for example, are public writings. A private writing that becomes part of a public record may be a public writing in some circumstances. 2. Rare. A
Parliamentary law. Formal written notice of a meeting’s time and place, sometimes stating its business, sent to each member in advance.
subscriptor (s[schwa]b-skrip-tor or -t[schwa]r), n. [Latin] Roman law. 1. A person who made or signed a written accusation of crime against a particular person. 2. The witness to a will. Pl. subscriptores.
duplicate (d[y]oo-pli-kit), n. 1. A reproduction of an original document having the same particulars and effect as the original. See Fed. R. Evid. 101(4). 2. A new original, made to replace an instrument that is lost or destroyed. — Also termed (in sense 2) duplicate original. [Cases: Criminal Law 399; Evidence 173. C.J.S. Evidence §§
survey, n. 1. A general consideration of something; appraisal (a survey of the situation). 2. The measuring of a tract of land and its boundaries and contents; a map indicating the results of such measurements (the lender requires a survey of the property before it will issue a loan). government survey. A survey made by