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• n., 1. Any paper, parchment or other material on which is recorded or marked anything that is capable of being read or understood by a person, computer system or other device, and includes a credit card, but does not include trade-marks on articles of commerce or inscriptions on stone or metal or other like material. 2. Includes a plan of survey and any certificate, affidavit, statutory declaration or other proof as to the birth, baptism, marriage, divorce, death, burial, descendants or pedigree of any person, or as to the existence or non-existence, happening or non-happening of any fact, event or occurrence upon which the title to land may depend, a notice of sale, or other notice necessary to the exercise of any power of sale or appointment or other power relating to land, and a receipt for payment of money under a registered instrument. 3. Includes an assignment, a renewal statement, an affidavit and a certificate of discharge. 4. Includes books, maps, places, drawings, and photographs. 5. Includes summons, notice, order, certificate, register and legal process. 6. In addition to its usual meaning, includes an entry in a book or a register. 7. An order, regulation, bylaw, rule, schedule, contract, report, return or statement, or a copy thereof, or an amendment thereto or a copy of an amendment thereto, or any other document, that is required by any Act to be laid before or submitted to the Legislative Assembly at any session. 8. Includes a sound recording, videotape, film, photograph, chart, graph, map, plan, survey, book of account and information recorded or stored by means of any device. [The Dictionary of Canadian Law, 3rd ed. c2004]
• n., 1. Something tangible on which words, symbols, or marks are recorded. 2. (pl.) the deeds, agreements, title papers, letters, receipts, an other written instruments used to prove a fact. 3. Evidence. Under the best-evidence rule, a physical embodiment of information or ideas, such as a letter, contract, receipt, account book, blueprint, or X-ray plate; esp., the original of such an embodiment. [Black’s Law Dictionary, 8th ed. c2004]
• n., An indivisible unit of information constituted by a message affixed to a medium (recorded) in a stable syntactic manner. A document has fixed form and stable content. See also: analogue document; digital document; record; work; written record. See also: analogue document; archival document; attachment; captured document; copy of outgoing document; digital document; HTML document; identified document; incoming document; internal document; made document; manifested digital document; outgoing document; potential record; received document; record; schema document; sent document; SGML document; SGML-compliant document; stored digital document; work; written record; XML document.
• n., Information captured on paper or in electronic format. Under the rules of evidence, the term receives the broadest possible interpretation and may include such items as photographs, audiotapes, etc. [Webster’s New World Law Dictionary. c2006]
• v., To record something, typically in writing, or to produce documents to substantiate an assertion. [Webster’s New World Law Dictionary. c2006]