| Noun | 1. | original - an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made Synonyms: master copy, master |
| 2. | original - an original model on which something is patterned | |
| Adj. | 1. | original - preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed; "the original inhabitants of the Americas"; "the book still has its original binding"; "restored the house to its original condition"; "the original performance of the opera"; "the original cast"; "retracted his original statement" |
| 2. | original - (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary; "his work is based on only original, not secondary, sources" | |
| 3. | original - being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach"; "with original music"; "an original mind" Antonyms: unoriginal - not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham | |
| 4. | original - not derived or copied or translated from something else; "the play is original; not an adaptation"; "he kept the original copy and gave her only a xerox"; "the translation misses much of the subtlety of the original French" |
ORIGINAL, contracts, practice, evidence. An authentic instrument of
something, and which is to serve as a model or example to be copied or
imitated. It also means first, or not deriving any authority from any other
source as, original jurisdiction, original writ, original bill, and the
like.
2. Originals are single or duplicate. Single, when there is but one;
duplicate, when there are two. In the case of printed documents, all the
impressions are originals, or in the nature of duplicate originals, and any
copy will be primary evidence. Watson's Case, 2 Stark. R. 130; sed vide 14
Serg.& Rawle, 200; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 2001.
3. When an original document is not evidence at common law, and a copy
of such original is made evidence by an act of the legislature, the original
is not, therefore, made admissible evidence by implication. 2 Camp. R. 121,
WRIT, ORIGINAL, practice, English law. An original writ is a mandatory letter issuing out of the court of chancery under the great seal and in a king's name, directed to the sheriff of the county where the injury is alleged to have been committed, containing a summary statement of the cause of complaint, and requiring him in most cases, to command the defendant to satisfy the claim; and, on his failure to comply, then to summon him to appear in one of the superior courts of common law, there to account for his non-compliance. In some cases, however, it omits the former alternative, and requires the sheriff simply to enforce the appearance. Steph. Pl. 5.
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