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MUNIMENT

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 9 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MUNIMENT  , a word chiefly used in the plural, as a collective

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term for the documents, charters,
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title-deeds, &c.
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relating to the
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property, rights and privileges of a
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corporation, such as a
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college, a
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family or private
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person, and kept as " evidences " for defending the same . Hence the
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medieval usage of the word munimentum, in classical Latin, a
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defence, fortification, from munire, to defend .

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