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authentic act

authentic act in the civil law of Louisiana : a writing executed in accordance with law which requires that each party to the writing sign it before a public officer (as a notary public) and two witnesses and that the public officer and witnesses also sign the writing ...


Authentic Act

Authentic Act, that which has been executed before a notary or other public officer, duly authorized, or which is testified by a public seal, or has been rendered public by the authority of a competent magistrate, or which is certified as being a copy of a public register, Civil Law....


Notarial act

Notarial act. (1) A written certification or authentication under the signature or official seal of a notary of any document or entry, or (2) any instrument, attestation or certificate by a notary in the execution of his office. [S. 11(d) Indian Stamp Act]...


Crown Office Act

Crown Office Act, 1877 (English) (40 & 41 Vict. c. 41), provides for the authentication, etc., of documents issued from the office of the Crown in chancery....


authenticate

authenticate -cat·ed -cat·ing 1 : to prove or serve to prove that (something) is genuine ;esp : to prove that (an item of evidence) is genuine for the purpose of establishing admissibility 2 : to make (a written instrument) valid and effective by marking esp. with one's signature [ a check] ...


Authentic

Authentic, an undoubted original....


Authentication

Authentication, an attestation made by a proper officer by which he certifies that a record is in due form of law, and that the person who certifies it is the officer appointed so to do....


Authentics

Authentics, a collection of the Novels of Justinian, made by an anonymous author. So called on account of its authority, Civil Law.There is another collection so called, complied by Irnier, of incorrect extracts from the Novels and inserted by him in the Code, in the places to which they refer....


Act of Parliament

Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a law made by the sovereign 'by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, and by authority of the same'; also called a 'statute.'Means a bill passed by two Houses of Parliament and assented to by the President and in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002.Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of a State; a Bill enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill which is in the form of draft of a law or legislative proposal pres...


Consolidation Acts (English)

Consolidation Acts (English). Acts by which several Acts upon the same subject are reduced into one. Of such a character are the Larceny Act, 1861, now largely repealed and replaced by the Larceny Act, 1916, and other Criminal Law Consolidation Acts of 1861, the Public Health Act, 1875, the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, the Sheriffs Act, 1887, the Arbitration Act, 1889, the Factors Act, 1889, the Lunacy Act, 1890, the Stamp Act, 1891, the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, the Coal Mines Act, 1911, the Forgery Act, 1913, the Companies Act,1929, the Poor Law Act, 1930, the Local Government Act, 1933, the County Court Act, 1934.The (English) Interpretation Act, 1889 (see that title), by s. 38(1) enacts that--Where this Act or any Act passed after the commencement of this Act repeals and re-enacts, with or without modification, any provisions of a former Act, references in any other Act to the provisions so repealed shall...


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