ingrossment

English

Noun

ingrossment (countable and uncountable, plural ingrossments)

  1. (UK, historical, law) Prior to the abolition of inrollment in 1849, the act of preparing a parliamentary bill for royal assent by entering it onto a roll, incorporating any amendments.
  2. (otherwise) Archaic form of engrossment.

References
  • Kelly, Richard (2022 March 1 (last accessed)) Vellum: printing record copies of public Acts‎, archived from the original on 2021-07-09, page 6.
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