COUNTERPART
counterpart.1. In conveyancing, a corresponding part of an instrument (the other half of the indenture ¡ª the counterpart ¡ª could not be found).
2. One of two or more copies or duplicates of a legal instrument (this lease may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which is considered an original).
¡°Formerly ¡®part¡¯ was used as the opposite of ¡®counterpart,¡¯ in respect to covenants executed in duplicate, but now each copy is called a ¡®counterpart.¡¯ ¡± 2 Stewart Rapalje & Robert L. Lawrence, A Dictionary of American and English Law 927 (1883).
¡°Counterparts are not nowadays written on the same parchment, but that which is executed by the grantor of an interest is called the ¡®original,¡¯ while that which is executed by the party to whom the interest passes ¡ª for ex-ample, a lessee ¡ª is called the ¡®counterpart.¡¯ ¡± G.C. Cheshire, Modern Law of Real Property 674 (3d ed. 1933).
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