Court-hand, a name given in England to a modification of the Norman handwriting, as distinguished from the modern or Italian handwriting which was in use in the English law-courts from the 16th century till abolished by law in the reign of George II. See WRITING.
Court-hand,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 526
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