Hist. [ad. med. (Anglo-) L. telligraphum, -ium, irreg. f. L. tellus land: see -GRAPH.] A description of the boundaries of land; a charter of lands in which the bounds are described: = TERRIER 1.
[816. in Haddan & Stubbs, Councils (1871), III. 582. Tamen serventur libros primordiales cum aliis telligraffis, ne inposterum aliquod scrupulum contraditionis innitere conantur.
1783. Reeves, Hist. Eng. Law, I. i. 8. An Anglo-Saxon charter of land has also been called Talligraphum,… but this appellation has been given to them most likely since the Conquest, as a translation of the word Landboc.]
1882. W. Beamont, Domesday Bk. (ed. 2), Introd. 6. The witnesses would probably produce the teligraphs by which they held their lands.
1903. G. F. Browne, St. Aldhelm, 249. These land-books were sometimes called telligraphs, a word which sounds curiously modern.
