IMPRIMATU

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

  IMPRIMATUR. A license or allowance to one to print.
       2. At one time, before a book could be printed in England, it was 
  requisite that a permission should be obtained that permission was called an 
  imprimatur. In some countries where the press is liable to censure, an 
  imprimatur is required.