INROLLMENT

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

  INROLLMENT. The act of putting upon a roll. Formerly, the record of a suit 
  was kept on skins of parchment, which, best to preserve them, were kept upon 
  a roll or in the form of a roll; what was written upon them was called the 
  inrollment. After, when such records came to be kept in books, the making up 
  of the record retained the old name of inrollment.