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DOCUMENT , strictly, in See also:

law, that which can serve as See also:evidence or See also:proof, and is written or printed, or has an inscription or any significance that can be " read "; thus a picture, authenticated photograph, See also:seal or the like would furnish documentary evidence." More generally the word is used for written or printed papers that provide See also:information or evidence on a subject. The Latin documentum, from which the word is derived, meant, in classical times, a See also:lesson, example or proof (docere, to See also:teach), and only in See also:medieval Latin came to be applied to an instrumentum, or See also:record in See also:writing. The classical Latin use is found in See also:English; thus See also:Jeremy See also:Taylor (See also:Works, ed. 1835, i. 815) speaks of See also:punishment being a " single and sudden document if instantly inflicted " (see See also:DIPLOMATIC; and EVIDENCE).

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