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BRIEF

eccl. law. The name of a kind of papal rescript. Briefs are
writings sealed with wax, and differ in this respect from bulls, (q. v.)
which are scaled with lead. They are so called, because they usually are
short compendious writings. Ayl. Parerg. 132. See Breve.


Source: Bouviers Law Dictionary 1856 Edition

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