Constat

Constat, a certificate which the Clerk of the Pipe and auditors of the Exchequer made, at the request of any person who intended to plead or move in that Court, for the discharge of anything. The effect of it was the certifying what appears (constat) upon record touching the matter in question. It was held to be superior to an ordinary certificate, because it did not contain anything but what appears on record. An exemplification of the enrolment of letters-patent under the Great Seal in called a constat, Co. Litt. 225; Page's case, 5 Rep. 52.