DOCUMENT

An instrument on which is recorded, by means of letters, figures, or marks, matter which may be evidentially used. In this sense the term "document" appU~ to writings; to words printed, lithographed, or photographed; to seals, plates, or stones on which inscriptions are cut or engraved; to photographs and pictures; to maps and plans. T)le inscription may be on.stone or geins, or on wood, as well as on paper or parchment. 1 Whart. Elv, I 614; Johnson Steel Street-Rail Co. v. North Branch Steel Co. (C. C.) 48 Fed. 194; Arnold t. Water Oo., 18 R. I. 189, 26 Atl. 55, 19 L. R. A. 602; Hayden v. Van Cortlaµdt, 84 Hun. 150, 32 N. Y. Supp. WT. In the plural, the deeds, agreements, title papers, letters, receipts, and other written instruments used to prove a.fact. In the civil law. Evidence delivered in the forms established by law, or whatever nature ·such evidence may be. The term Is, however, applied principally to the testimony of witne es. Sav. Dr, Rom. I 165. -AD.cl.it docum.e:nt■, Deeds, wills and', ether writinp more than thirty yean old are [s. 392]