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Domesday, or domesday-book

an allusion to the final day of judgment, as most persons have conceived, but was to strengthen and confirm it, and signifies the judicial decisive record or book of dooming justice and judgment. Consult Ellis's Introd. To

Duo sunt instrumenta ad omnes res aut confirmandas aut impugnandas

Duo sunt instrumenta ad omnes res aut confirmandas aut impugnandas [Lat.], ratio et auctoritas. There are two instruments either to confirm or impugn all things-reason and

Breach of warrantee

breach by a seller of the terms of a warrantee (as by the failure of the goods to confirm to the seller's description or by a defect in title); A seller may be liable for a breach

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Quasi judicial function

some respects as if it were judicial. A typical example is a minister deciding whether or not to confirm a compulsory purchase order or to allow a planning appeal after a public inquiry. The decision itself is

Festing-penny

Festing-penny [fr. festnian, Sax., to confirm], earnest given to servants when hired or retained in service.

Fictitious entry

entry is one which is not genuine. It is an unreal entry. Entries which are not genuine cannot confirm anybody's rights. It is too obvious to be stressed that an entry which is incorrectly introduced into the

Intoxicating liquor

is not extended by transfer or special removal. 4. Renewal.--A licence granted by way of renewal requires no confirmation. From a refusal to renew, the grounds of which must be specified in writing [s. 18(2)], there is

Locus p'nitenti'

chance of repentance), a power of drawing back from a bargain before any act has been done to confirm it in law, Bell's Scots Law Dict

Magna Carta

English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties.

Marriage

a constitutional practice of the legislature to pass from time to time, as required, special validating acts to confirm, ex abundanti coutela, marriages where some general defect of form or a slip might throw doubt on them;

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