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Adjective: unwritten  ún'rit(u)n
  1. Based on custom rather than documentation
    "an unwritten law"; "rites...so ancient that they well might have had their unwritten origins in Aurignacian times"
     
  2. Using speech rather than writing
    - oral
     
  3. Said or done without having been planned or written in advance
    - ad-lib, spontaneous

See also: common-law, spoken, unscripted

Antonym: written

Encyclopedia: Unwritten