PAPER

A written or ·printed document or instrument. A document filed or introduced in evidence in a suit at law, as, in the. phrase "papers in the case" and in "papers on appeal.". Any writing or printed document, including letters, memoranda, legal or busine documents, and books of account, as in the constitutional provision which protects the people from unreason• able searches and seizures in respecf to their "papers" as well as their houses and persons. A written or printed evidence of debt, particularly a promi ory note or a bill of exchange, as in the phra~s "accommoda• tion paper" and "commercial paper." In English practice. The list of causes or cases intended for argument, called "the paper of causes." 1 Tidd, Pr. 504. -Accommodation paper. See that title.- Commercial paper, See CoMMERCIAL.-Paper blockade, See BLOCKADE.-Paper book. In practice. A printed collection or abstract, in methodical order, of the pleadings, evidence, exhibits, and proceedings in a cause, or whatever else may be nece aey to· a full understanding of it, prepared for the use of the judges upon a hearing or argument on appeal. Copies of the proceedings on an i ue in tacw or demurter, of cases, and of the proceedings. on error, prepared for the use of the judges, and 1 d~livered to them previous to bringing the cause to argument. 3 BI. Comm. 317; Archb. New Pr. 353; 5 Man. & G. 98. In. proceedings on appeal or error in a crjminal case, copies of the proceedings with a note of the points intended to be argued. delivered to the judges by the parties before the argument. Arcbb, Crim. Pl. 205; Sweet.-Paper credit. Credit given on the security of any written obligation purporting to represent property.-Paper days. In English law. Certain days in term-time appoint• ed by the courts for bearings or arguments in· the cases set down in the various special papers. -Paper money, Bills drawn by a govem• ment against its own credit, engaging to pay mone7, but which do not profe to be lmmedi• ate!:, convertible into. specie, and which are put Into compulsory circulatioJ1 as a 11.ubstitute for eoined money.-Paper office. In Eti_glish law. Arl.ancient office in the palace of White hall. 'lldlere all the public writings, matters of state IQl4. council proclamations, letters, in tell i gen- 1 ces, negotiations of the Queen'i ministers abroad. TITLE. [s. 876]