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A chirograph is a medieval document, which has been written in duplicate, triplicate or very occasionally quadruplicate (four copies) on a single piece of parchment, with the Latin word chirographum (occasionally replaced by some other term) written across the middle, and then cut through to separate the parts.
The practice of separating the copies with an irregular cut also gave rise to the description of the documents as “indentures”, since the edges would be said to be “indented”