ROL

1 definition found

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

  ROLL. A schedule of parchment which may be turned up with the hand in the 
  form of a pipe or tube. Jacob, L. D. h.t. 
       2. In early times, before paper came in common use, parchment was the 
  substance employed for making records, and, as the art of bookbinding was 
  but little used, economy suggested as the most convenient mode of adding 
  sheet to sheet, as were found requisite, and they were tacked together in 


  such manner that the whole length might be wound up together in the form of 
  spiral rolls. 
       3. Figuratively it signifies the records of a court or office. In 
  Pennsylvania the master of the rolls was an officer in whose office were 
  recorded the acts of the legislature. 1 Smith's Laws, 46.