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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Syngraph \Syn"graph\, n. [L. syngrapha, Gr. ?; sy`n with + ? to
     write.] (Law)
     A writing signed by both or all the parties to a contract or
     bond.
     [1913 Webster]



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

  SYNGRAPH. A deed, bond, or other instrument of writing, under the band and 
  seal of all the parties. It was so called because the parties wrote 
  together. 
       2. Formerly such writings were attested by the subscription and crosses 
  of the witnesses; afterwards, to prevent frauds and concealments, they made 
  deeds of mutual covenant in a script and rescript, or in a part and 
  counterpart, and in the middle between the two copies they wrote the word 
  syngraphus in large letters, which being cut through the parchment, and one 
  being delivered to each party, on being afterwards put together, proved 
  their authenticity. 
       3. Deeds thus made were denominates syngraphs by the canonists, and by 
  the common lawyers chirographs. (q.v.) 2 Blackstone's Commentaries, 296. 
  
  

















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