A Manual for the Genealogist, Topographer, Antiquary, and Legal Professor: Consisting of Descriptions of Public Records; Parochial Other Registers; Wills; County Family Histories; Heraldic Collections in Public Libraries, Etc;, Etc (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Manual for the Genealogist, Topographer, Antiquary, and Legal Professor: Consisting of Descriptions of Public Records; Parochial Other Registers; Wills; County Family Histories; Heraldic Collections in Public Libraries, Etc;, Etc

The term Record is derived from the Latin recordari, to remember, and signifies an authentic testimony in writing preserved in Courts of Record. Many ancient writers make it necessary that records should be on parchment; but this remark cannot be correct, as many of the Exchequer Records are on paper.

An act committed to writing in any of the Queen's Courts is, during the term wherein it is written, alterable - being no record; but that term ended, and the act duly enrolled, it is a record; and, in our common law, no witness can prevail against it. This being the definition of the word Record, it follows that the term is most incorrectly used when applied to parchment deeds, registers, and miscellaneous manuscripts.

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