DUPLICAT

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DUPLICATE. The double of anything.
       2. It is usually applied to agreements, letters, receipts, and the 
  like, when two originals are made of either of them. Each copy has the same 
  effect. The term duplicate means a document, which is essentially the same 
  as some other instrument. 7 Mann. & Gr. 93. In the English law, it also 
  signifies the certificate of discharge given to an insolvent debtor, who 


  takes the benefit of the act for the relief of insolvent debtors. 
       3. A duplicate writing has but one effect. Each duplicate is complete 
  evidence of the intention of the parties. When a duplicate is destroyed, for 
  example, in the case of a will, it is presumed. both are intended to be 
  destroyed; but this presumption possesses greater or less force) owing to 
  circumstances. When only one of the duplicates is in the possession of the 
  testator, the destruction of that is a strong presumption of an intent to 
  revoke both; but if he possessed both, and destroys but one, it is weaker; 
  when he alters one, and afterwards destroys it , retaining the other entire, 
  it has been held that the intention was to revoke both. 1 P. Wms. 346; 13 
  Ves. 310 but that seems to be doubted. 3 Hagg. Eccl. R. 548.