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- noun Plural form of
jurat .
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Examples
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As soon as she's done Gilbert gets to work filling in the "jurats"—the printed text by which he certifies to the authenticity of her barely-legible scrawl-before he stamps and seals the documents.
Remotary Publics Bring Stamps, Seals to Those in Distress Con Chapman 2011
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That brief included a discussion of the differences between jurats and acknowledgments.
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I wrote a whole brief dissecting jurats once, so I assumed it was a pretty common-use thing.
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That brief included a discussion of the differences between jurats and acknowledgments.
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That brief included a discussion of the differences between jurats and acknowledgments.
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I wrote a whole brief dissecting jurats once, so I assumed it was a pretty common-use thing.
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That brief included a discussion of the differences between jurats and acknowledgments.
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Whalley, Determined Codde or Cucumber Upright, my jurats, if it does not occur again.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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The jurats being met to the number sometimes of two or three hundred, in this desolate place, are quite exposed to the weather and have no other place to sit upon but a moor-stone bench, and no refreshments but what they bring with them; for this reason the steward immediately adjourns the court to Tavistock, or some other stannary town.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829 Various
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In the Forest of Dartmoor, Devonshire, between Tavistock and Chegford, is a high hill, called Crocken Tor, where the tinners of this county are obliged by their charter to assemble their parliaments, or the jurats who are commonly gentlemen within the jurisdiction, chosen from the four stannary courts of coinage in this county, of which the lord-warden is judge.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829 Various
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