An Irish legal term for a deed, grant, or official document conveying property or rights.
From Old Irish brat-tach, from brat (cloth, covering, decree) plus -ach (pertaining to). The word originally referred to a written document literally as something that 'covered' or authorized a right.
Irish scribes called legal documents 'brattachs' because they literally covered and protected a person's rights—so to challenge someone's brattach was to question their entire claim to property or status.
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