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noun

Voucher n.

1.

One who vouches, or gives witness or full attestation, to anything. "Will his vouchers vouch him no more?" "The great writers of that age stand up together as vouchers for one another's reputation."

2.

A book, paper, or document which serves to vouch the truth of accounts, or to confirm and establish facts of any kind; also, any acquittance or receipt showing the payment of a debt; as, the merchant's books are his vouchers for the correctness of his accounts; notes, bonds, receipts, and other writings, are used as vouchers in proving facts.

3.

(Law)

(a)

The act of calling in a person to make good his warranty of title in the old form of action for the recovery of lands.

(b)

The tenant in a writ of right; one who calls in another to establish his warranty of title. In common recoveries, there may be a single voucher or double vouchers.

4.

A document attesting to a credit against certain defined expenditures; a recipt for prepayment; often used in pre-arranged travel plans, to provide evidence of pre-payment of the cost of lodging, transportation, or meals.

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"Voucher" Quotes from Famous Books

... given his heart to Marie Louise Webling, of whom he knew little except that she would not tell him much. And on her dubious voucher he had taken Jake Nuddle into his employ. Now he had to accept them as he had to accept steel, taking it as it came and being glad to get ...

— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes

... apprehensions of that nature, when I inscribe this book to Pascal Paoli. Your virtues, Sir, are universally acknowledged; they dignify the pages which I venture to present to you; and it is my singular felicity that my book is the voucher of its dedication. ...

— Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica • James Boswell

... assist in the business. I presented them to Lord Loudoun, desiring to be paid the ballance. He caus'd them to be regularly examined by the proper officer, who, after comparing every article with its voucher, certified them to be right; and the balance due for which his lordship promis'd to give me an order on the paymaster. This was, however, put off from time to time; and, tho' I call'd often for it by appointment, I did not get it. At length, just before my ...

— The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin • Benjamin Franklin

... the Gordian knot was hard! 'Tis mine; and this will witness outwardly, As strongly as the conscience does within, To the madding of her lord. On her left breast A mole cinque-spotted, like the crimson drops I' the bottom of a cowslip. Here's a voucher, Stronger than ever law could make; this secret Will force him think I have pick'd the lock and ta'en The treasure of her honour. No more. To what end? Why should I write this down, that's riveted, Screw'd to ...

— Cymbeline • William Shakespeare [Tudor edition]

... that the two detectives were in the company of Curly John was sufficient voucher for their personalities, and it did not occur to anybody, not even to Mike Grinnel himself, to ...

— A Woman at Bay - A Fiend in Skirts • Nicholas Carter

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