SCRIP  , properly any written document; the word is a corruption of " script " (See also:

• LAT

Lat. scribere, to write), possibly from an assimilation with " scrip," a See also:

• PILGRIM

pilgrim's bag or wallet, which is borrowed from the Scandinavian (cf . Nor. skreppa, knapsack), and is ultimately cognate with " scrap," shred . In commercial usage, scrip " is a document or certificate issued by a public See also:

• COMPANY

company when instalments upon its shares are ' payable at different See also:

• DATES

dates, or the whole amount to be paid has not been called up: Such a document entitles the See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person named to be treated as the allottee of the shares mentioned; it is transferable, and entitles the allottee on See also:

• PAYMENT (Fr. paiement, from payer, to pay; Lat. pacare, to appease, pax, peace)

payment of all the calls to a See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share certificate . Scrip requires a See also:

• PENNY (Mid. Eng. peni or peny, from O. Eng. form penig, earlier penning and pending; the word appears in Ger. Pfennig and Du. penning; it has been connected with Du. pand, Ger. Pfand, and Eng. " pawn,". the word meaning a little pledge or token, or with G
• PENNY, GIANFRANCESCO (1488–1528)

penny 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 impressed upon it . The word is frequently loosely used for the share certificates or shares collectively .