law-hand

[ law-hand ]

noun

1. a style of handwriting used in old legal documents, especially in England.

Word History and Origins

Origin of law-hand¹

First recorded in 1725–35; law ¹ + hand

Example Sentences

Marry, the letters are not all of the same size or tallness; but that only shows your proficiency in the hands—text, german-hand, court-hand, sometimes law-hand, and affords variety.

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Marry, the letters are not all of the same size or tallness; but that only shows your proficiency in the hands—text, german-hand, court-hand, sometimes law-hand, and affords variety.

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Mr. Snagsby is behind his counter in his grey coat and sleeves, inspecting an indenture of several skins which has just come in from the engrosser's, an immense desert of law-hand and parchment, with here and there a resting-place of a few large letters to break the awful monotony and save the traveller from despair. 

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Some of the inscriptions I have enumerated were written in law-hand, like the papers I had seen in Kenge and Carboy's office and the letters I had so long received from the firm. 

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"Is it what you people call law-hand?" she asks, looking full at him in her careless way again and toying with her screen.

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