‖ inspeximus Law.
(ɪnˈspɛksɪməs)
[L., = ‘we have inspected’: the first word in recital of the inspection of charters, etc.]
A charter in which the grantor avouches to have inspected an earlier charter which he recites and confirms. Also attrib.
| [1282–3 Rolls Parlt. I. 225/1 Carta confirmationis libertatum [sit] sub hac forma: Edwardus &c. Inspeximus Cartam donationis..quam Dominus H. Rex..fecit. 1547–8 Mervyn in Brooke Abridgem. (1586) tit. Patentes 97 II. 128 Vn Constat est pledable, contrarie dun Inspeximus, car in lun case le patent remaine, & in lauter il est parde.] 1628 Coke On Litt. 225 b, When Littleton wrote, no constat, or inspeximus, of the king's letters patents were availeable to be shewed forth in court, but the letters patents themselves under seal. 1658 Coke's Rep. v. 53 b, It is called Inspeximus, because it begins after the King's style with this word Inspeximus: and it is called exemplification a re ipsa, because the record is thereby exemplified. 1677 Plot Oxfordsh. 332 As appears by an Inspeximus of Q. Elizabeth, granted this Corporation. 1783 Warton Hist. Kiddington 66 note, This road is specified, by the names of strata and magna via, in an Inspeximus-charter of Henry the third to Tarent-abbey in Dorsetshire. 1885 N. & Q. 6th Ser. XII. 411/1 An inspeximus consists of a recital that a previous document has been inspected, and a confirmatory regrant thereof. |