Legal Definition and Related Resources of Roll

A paper or parchment which may be t.r.e. up with the hand in the form of a pipe or tube.

A schedule of parchment which may be turned up with the hand in the form of a pipe or tube. Jacob. In early times, before paper came in common use, parchment was the substance employed for making records, and, as the art of bookbinding was but little used, economy suggested, as the most convenient mode, the adding of sheet to sheet, as was found requisite, and they were tacked together in such a manner that the whole length might be wound up together in the form of spiral rolls. The records of a court or office.

noun

• account
• album
• catalogue
• census
• chronicle
• directory
• docket
• document
• enumeration
• index
• inventory
• ledger
• list
• membership
• muster
• record
• register
• registry
• roster
• schedule
• tabula

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Grammar

This term is a verb.

Etimology of Roll

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c. 1300 “turn over and over, move by rotating” (intransitive); late 14c. as “to move (something) by turning it over and over;” from Old French roeller “roll, wheel round” (Modern French rouler), from Medieval Latin rotulare, from Latin rotula, diminutive of rota “wheel” (see rotary). Related: Rolled; rolling. Of sounds (such as thunder) somehow suggestive of a rolling ball, 1590s; of a drum from 1680s. Of eyes, from late 14c. Of a movie camera, “to start filming,” from 1938. Sense of “rob a stuporous drunk” is from 1873, from the action required to get to his pockets. To roll up “gather, congregate” is from 1861, originally Australian. To be on a roll is from 1976. To roll with the punches is a metaphor from boxing (1940). Heads will roll is a Hitlerism: If our movement is victorious there will be a revolutionary tribunal which will punish the crimes of November 1918. Then decapitated heads will roll in the sand. [1930]

Meaning of Roll in Spanish

Description/ translation of roll into Spanish: alarde; (lista de casos que debe juzgar el tribunal del jurado en un período de sesiones determinado)[1]

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Notes and References

1. Translation of Roll published by Antonio Peñaranda