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What is a chirograph?

What is a chirograph? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law, historical) A kind of mediaeval document written in duplicate (or more) on a single piece of parchment, then cut across a single word, so that each holder of a portion can prove it matches the others.
  2. (law, historical) A papal decree whose circulation, unlike an encyclical, is limited to the Roman curia.
  3. (obsolete) The last part of a fine of land; the "foot of the fine".
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