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• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

INSTRUMENT (See also:

• LAT

Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)  , that which can be used as a means to an end, hence a See also:

• MECHANICAL

mechanical contrivance, See also:

• IMPLEMENT (Lat. implementum, a filling up, from implere, to fill)

implement or See also:

• TOOL (0. Eng. tdl, generally referred to a root seen in the Goth. taujan, to make, or in the English word " taw," to work or dress leather)

tool; the word is more particularly applied to the implements of applied See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, in See also:

• MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics, See also:

• SURGERY
• SURGERY (Fr. chirurgie, from Gr. Xetpoupyfa, i.e. hand-work)

surgery, See also:

• SURVEYING

surveying, &c., while those of the handicrafts are generally known as " tools . A specific use of the See also:

• TERM

term is for the various contrivances used to produce musical sounds, " musical See also:

• INSTRUMENTS

instruments." In See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law an " See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument " is any formal or written document by which expression is given to a legal See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act or. agreement . This is a classical use of the See also:

• LAT

Lat. instrumentum, a document, See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record . The term may be used in a wide sense, as a See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing, meant only to See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form a record, or in a particular sense with reference to certain statutes . For example, the See also:

• STAMP (from " to stamp," to strike or tread heavily, hence to impress, O. Eng. stempen, Du. stampen, Ger. stampfen, whence, O. Fr. estamper, mod. etamper)

Stamp Act 1891 defines an instrument as an expression including every written document; for the purposes of the See also:

• FORGERY (derived through the French from Latin fabricare, to construct)

Forgery Act 1861 a See also:

• POST

post-See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office telegram accepting a See also:

• WAGER (derived, through Fr. wagier, gagier, from Lat. vadiunz, a pledge)

wager has been defined as an instrument . In expressions such as " See also:

• DEED (in O. Eng. dead, from the stem of the verb " to do ")

deed, will, or other written instrument " the word means any written document under which a right or liability, legal or equitable, exists .