legal cap

noun

ruled writing paper in tablet form, measuring approximately 8½ × 13 to 14 inches (22 × 33 to 36 centimeters).

legal cap

ruled writing paper, about 8 by 13 1 2 inches with the fold at the top, for use by lawyers

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

Emily Louise had just set forth upon legal cap her opening conclusions upon the matter.

One day a middle-aged money-making lawyer, who bought his legal cap and ink of her, asked her across the counter to marry him.

“I never thought it would be so hard,” she said to herself when she had finished the tale and copied it out on legal cap paper.

Drawing a leather wallet from his inside pocket, he took out a folded legal cap document and opened it.

The brief consists of fifteen pages of legal cap paper only four of which are here given.

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