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Attachment, Letters of

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Lettres d'Attache) are letters, added to others, to put the latter in execution. Sometimes they were called letters-patent, and were required in France and elsewhere before the papal bulls, etc., could take effect within the kingdom. See De Ferribre, Dict. de, Droit et de Pratique.-Landon, Eccles. Dict. s.v.