Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Chirograph \Chi"ro*graph\, n. [Gr. ? written with the hand;
   chei`r hand + gra`fein to write.] (Old. Law)
   (a) A writing which, requiring a counterpart, was engrossed
       twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space
       between, in which was written the word chirographum,
       through which the parchment was cut, and one part given
       to each party. It answered to what is now called a
       {charter party}.
   (b) The last part of a fine of land, commonly called the foot
       of the fine. --Bouvier.