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Certificate, a testimony given in writing to declare or verify the truth of anything. Certificates are frequently referred to or required by Statute. A certificate is the usual evidence of the title to shares in a company. See (English) Companies Act, 1929, ss. 67 and 68; for Certificate of Incorporation, see ss. 15 and 329, ibid.; and commencement of business, s. 94, ibid., and s. 82, ibid., as to registration of charges. Also ALIENS and Share Certificate; and see Land Certificate.

A document in which a fact is formally attested, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.

Trial by certificate, which has long been obsolete, took place in those cases in which the evidence of the person certifying was, by custom or otherwise, the only proper criterion of the point in dispute; see 3 Bl. Com. 333.

As to when certificates and examined copies are admissible in evidence, consult Taylor on Evidence, and the (English) Documentary Evidence Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 113) (UK).

As to the Master's Certificate in Chambers in the Chancery Court, see Ord. LV., part xiii.

As to the obligation of solicitors, conveyancers, notaries public, an others to take out annual certificates, see Stamp Act, 1891, ss. 43-48.

The certificate granted by the Board under s. 5A. [Cinematograph Act, 1952 (37 of 1952), s. 2 (bb)]