Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Librorum appellatione continentur omnia volumina, sive in charta, sive in membrana sint, sive in quavis alia material

Under the name of books are contained all volumes, whether upon paper, or on parchment, or on any other material.

Membrana

n. [Latin "parchment"] Hist. 1. A skin of parchment. 2. A notebook of leaves of parchment. ( The English rolls were made of several types of parchment and the term membrana was used in referring to them.