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Official document   /əfˈɪʃəl dˈɑkjəmɛnt/   Listen
Official document

noun
1.
(law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right.  Synonyms: instrument, legal document, legal instrument.






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"Official document" Quotes from Famous Books



... complied. Ramsey read the official document, scowled, and handed over his Irwadi pilot license. "What about the Polaris?" he wanted to know. The Polaris was a Centaurian ship he'd been scheduled to take through hyper-space on the run from Irwadi ...
— Equation of Doom • Gerald Vance

... imaginary instance, but is actually taken from an official document. The figure is supposed to represent one of these Deal boatmen, and the numerals will explain the methods of secreting the tea. (1) Indicates a cotton bag which was made to fit the crown of his hat, and herein could ...
— King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 • E. Keble Chatterton

... still able to direct from his rocky retreat the policy of the Empire. The reports of governors of provinces, for example, were received, read, and commented upon by Tiberius in his Capriote home, and amongst these there must have been included a certain official document from one Pontius Pilatus, Procurator of Judaea, relating how a Jewish prophet from Nazareth had been condemned, scourged and crucified by his orders at the special request of the Jews themselves. How eloquent is this bald statement of a simple fact, ...
— The Naples Riviera • Herbert M. Vaughan

... circumstances to undertake the non-official course, that his opinions and present practises in regard to the question of vivisection did not come under their Lordships' jurisdiction, and he protested against the introduction of his name, and of the approbation or disapprobation of his views, into an official document relating to a matter with which he ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley

... in his stride, wheels, and receives an official document on blue paper. Under the date of the previous ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... M. de St. Aignan. To this letter M. Metternich answered that the Emperors of Russia and Austria were gratified to find that the Emperor of France recognised the bases judged necessary by the Allies; that the two sovereigns would communicate without delay the official document to their Allies, and that they were convinced that immediately on receiving their reply the negotiations might be opened without ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... Master Arnold," said Lady Mary, "I know you will rejoice, such a tender-hearted man as you are at the release of Mistress Dulcibel Burton. Here is the official document." She flourished it at him, but still kept it in ...
— Dulcibel - A Tale of Old Salem • Henry Peterson

... Such are the proportions laid down in the official document for Scotland of the Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council on Education. We understand, however, that the Government inspectors possess certain modifying powers, through which the Government grant is occasionally extended to deserving teachers ...
— Leading Articles on Various Subjects • Hugh Miller

... flagrant example of Turkish formality that came to our notice was the following address on an official document to the Sultan: ...
— Across Asia on a Bicycle • Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben

... husband's personal property in his house in Rome, which was valued at thirty thousand ducats, and which on the death of Don Giovanni, had been transferred by Alexander VI, to the fratricide Caesar to administer for his nephew, as appears from an official document of the Roman notary Beneimbene, dated ...
— Lucretia Borgia - According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day • Ferdinand Gregorovius

... me in as Supervisor to succeed Plant," replied California John, handing over the official document. "I ...
— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White



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