From writings formerly seen. A term used as descriptive of that kind of proof of handwriting where the knowledge has been acquired by the witness having seen letters or other documents professing to be the handwriting of the party, and having afterwards communicated personally with the party upon the con-tents of those letters or documents, or hav-ing otherwise acted upon them by written answers, producing farther correspondence or acquiescence by the party in some matter to which they relate, or by the witness trans-acting with the party some business to which they relate, or by any other mode of communication between the party and the witness which, in the ordinary course of the trans-actions of life, Induces a reasonable presump-tlon that the letters or documents were the handwriting of the party. 5 Adol. & E. 730
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
