Vouchers
voucher (?), n. 1. Onewho vouches, or gives witness or full attestation, to anything.
Will his vouchers vouch him no more?
Shak.
The great writers of that age stand up together as
vouchers for one anothers reputation.
Spectator.
2. A book, paper, or document which serves to vouch
the truth of accounts, or to confirm and establish facts of any kind; also,
any acquittance or receipt showing the payment of a debt; as, the
merchants books are his vouchers for the correctness of his
accounts; notes, bonds, receipts, and other writings, are used as
vouchers in proving facts.
3. (Law) (a) The act of
calling in a person to make good his warranty of title in the old form of
action for the recovery of lands. (b) The
tenant in a writ of right; one who calls in another to establish his
warranty of title. In common recoveries, there may be a single
voucher or double vouchers. Blackstone.
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