Definition and Citations:
Lat. A scribe; a secretary. Scriba regis, a king’s secretary; a chancellor. Spelman. Scribere est agere. To write Is to act. Treasonable words set down in writing amount to overt acts of treason. 2 Bolle, 89; 4 Bl. Comm. 80; Broom, Max. 312, 907.