A written or printed document or instrument A document filed or introduced in evidence in a suit at law, as, ia the phrase "papers in the case" and in "papers on appeal." Any writing or printed document, including letters, memoranda, legal or business documents, and books of account as in
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A written or printed document or instrument A document filed or introduced in evidence in a suit at law, as, ia the phrase "papers in the case" and in "papers on appeal." Any writing or printed document, including letters, memoranda, legal or business documents, and books of account as in the constitutional provision which protects the people from unreasonable searches and seizures in respect to their "papers" as well as their houses and persons. A written or printed evidence of debt particularly a promissory note or a bill of exchange, as in the phrases "accommodation paper" and "commercial paper."
In English, praetiee. The list of causes or cases intended for argument called "the paper of causes." 1 Tidd, Pr. 504. -Accommodation paper. See that title-Commercial paper. See COMMERCIAL.-Paper blockade. See BLOCKADE.-Paper booh. In practice. A printed collection or abstract In methodical order, of the pleadings, evidence, exhibits, and proceedings in a cause, or whatever else may be necessary to a full understanding of it, prepared for the use of the judges upon a hearing or argument on appeal. Copies of tbe proceedings on an issrp in law or demurrer, of cases, and of tbe proceedings on error, prepared for the use of the judges, and delivered to them previous to bringing the cause to argument. 3 Bl. Comm. 317; Archb. Now Pr. 353; 5 Man. ft G. 08. In proceedings on appeal or error in a criminal case, copies of the proceedings with a note of the points intended to be argued, delivered to the judges by the parties before the argument. Archb. Crim. PI. 205: Sweet-Paper credit. Credit given on the security of any written obligation purporting to represent property.-J-Paper days. In English law. Certain days in term-time appointed by the courts for hearings or arguments in the cases set down in the various special papers. -Paper money. Bills drawn by a government against its own credit, engaging to pay money, but which do not profess to be immediately convertible Into specie, and which are put into compulsory circulation as a substitute for coined money.-Paper office. In English law. An ancient office in the palace of Whitehall, where all the public writings, matters of state and council, proclamations, letters, intelligences, negotiations of the queen's ministers abroad. and generally all the papers and dispatches that pass through the offices of the secretaries of state, are deposited. Also an office or room in the court of queen's bench where the records belonging to that court are deposited; sometimes called "paper-mill." Wharton.-Paper title. See TITLE.
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