Note 302 — Chapter XVI · TITLES.

Title meant originally a mark, sign, or inscription; e.g., the title of a book; titulus sepulchri, an epitaph. “Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross.” John xix. 19. Thence more specifically it came to mean signs or evidence of right or ownership; e.g., titulus, a boundary-stone; titulus, a title-deed (Ducange). Thence the ground of right or ownership, viz., an investitive fact.