court hand. Hist. A script style used by English court clerks, the words being abbreviated and contracted according to a set of common principles for maintaining brevity and uniformity. • This type of writing, along with the use of Latin (except for technical or untranslatable phrases), was banned early in the 18th century in an […]
court(-)hand (英格兰古法)法院卷宗书写体 古时英格兰法院书记官使用的一种书写形式，字词按照一套共同的原则进行缩略和简化，以保持简洁和统一。这种书写形式从最早时期一直延续到乔治二世〔GeorgeⅡ〕在位期间。懂得此种书写形式亦成为书记官职业不可缺少的一项技能。后来，为使非律师人士能更易于看懂法院卷宗，这种书写形式与拉丁文的使用(某些专业性的或不可转译的用语除外)一起在18世纪早期被禁止。
Hist. A script style used by English court clerks, the words being abbreviated and contracted according to a set of common principles for maintaining brevity and uniformity. • This type of writing, along with the use of Latin (except for technical or untranslatable phrases), was banned early in the 18th century in an effort to