Chirograph

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The last part of a fine of land, commonly called the foot of the fine.

II. Chirograph ·noun A writing which, requiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party.