Agree "Advisory Opinions" was mislabeled. That's annoying. My point about "Typographic Journal" is that their usage is quite different - they are using it as a

Agree "Advisory Opinions" was mislabeled. That's annoying. My point about "Typographic Journal" is that their usage is quite different - they are using it as a synonym for low quality, not the kind of fill-in-the-blanks usage we see now. In 1851 "De Bows Review"[1] talks about how it is a felony to use unstamped boiler-plate, conceal the plate on the boiler-plate or counterfeit the stamp. To me that goes to filling-in of boilerplate with details (using the stamp) which seems a more likely origin than the "lower quality" usage used by "Typographic Journal". [1] https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/De_Bow_s_Review/y5wRAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=boilerplate+language&pg=PA96&printsec=frontcover https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/De_Bow_s_Review/y5wR... (and see page vii which shows this was published in 1851)