officer in the common pleas, who engrosses fines acknowledged in that court, into a perpetual record, (after they have been examined, and passed by other officers;) and writes and delivers the indentures thereof to the party. He makes two indentures; one for the buyer, the other for the seller; and a third indented piece, containing the effect of the fine, and called the foot of the fine; and delivers it to the custos brevium.—The CHIRONANCY, a species of divination drawn from the lines and lineaments of a person's hand; by which means, it is pretended, the dispositions may be discovered. See Divination, n° 9.