The style of hand-writing used for legal documents. Also occas., matter written in this hand.
1731. Gentl. Mag., I. 98. It is not the Lawyers that have invented these Law-hands, to keep their clients in ignorance.
1748. Hartley, Observ. Man, I. iii. 302. The common Round-hand, various Law-hands, and various Short-hands.
1776. J. Adams, Wks. (1854), IX. 433. You must make yourself sufficiently acquainted with law-french and with the abbreviated law-hand, to read and understand the cases reported in these books.
1852. Dickens, Bleak Ho., xlvii. An immense desert of law-hand and parchment.
