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Ratification, confirmation. 'A contract of agency may also be created by ratification. Where A. purports to act as agent for B., either having no authority at all or having no authority to do that particular act, the subsequent adoption by B. of A.'s act has the same legal consequences as if B. had originallyauthorised the act. But there can be no ratification unless A purported to act as agent, and to act for B.; and in such a case B alone can ratify. Nor can there be any binding ratification of any agreement which was originally void' (Odgers on the Common Law), or where the principal was not in existence at the time of the act, either in fact or in the contemplation of law as in the case of persons such as trustees in bankruptcy or personal repre-sentatives who acquire title by relation, Kelner v. Baxter, LR 2 CP 174; and see also NOTICE TO QUIT. Omnis ratihabitio retrotrahitur et mandato 'quiparatur (Co. Litt. 207 a). As to the ratification of contracts by infants, see the Infants ...
Ratification
The act of ratifying the state of being ratified confirmation sanction as the ratification of a treaty...
Infant
Infant [fr. infans, Lat., one who cannot speak], a person under twenty-one years of age, whose acts are in many cases either void or voidable. See AGE.At Common Law, the contracts of infants are divided into three classes: 1st. Those which are absolutely void; such as are positively injurious to the interests of the infant, and can only operate to his prejudice; as a surety-bond, or a release to his guardian.2nd. Those which are only voidable: such as are beneficial to him, which he may affirm or avoid when he comes of age; as a conveyance of lands, a promissory note, an account stated.3rd. Those which are binding ab initio and need on ratification: such as contracts for the public service, Articles of apprenticeship [see Green v. Thompson, (1899) 2 QB 1], executed contracts of marriage, representative acts as executor or trustee, contracts for necessaries. In an action brought for the price of goods, if the defendant pleads infancy, the onus is on the plaintiff to prove that the goods...
confirmation
confirmation 1 : the act or process of confirming, assuring, or upholding [seeking of the agreement] ;specif : the ratification of an executive act by a legislative body [senate of the Supreme Court nominee] 2 : something that confirms: as a : an express or implied contract by which a person makes a voidable agreement binding ;specif : a definite expression or written memorandum that verifies or substantiates an agreement previously made orally or informally b in the civil law of Louisiana : a declaration whereby a person corrects the parts of an obligation that are null to make them enforceable c : a conveyance by which valid title to an estate is transferred to a person already in possession or by which an estate is increased ...
equal rights amendment (era)
equal rights amendment (era) The proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution was intended to explicitly guarantee equality to all persons, regardless of gender. After passing in Congress in 1972, the amendment did not receive enough votes for ratification by the individual states, and was never signed into law. ...
executive session
executive session : a closed session (as of the U.S. Senate) in which executive business (as consideration of appointments or ratification of treaties) is taken care of compare legislative session ...
Homologation
Confirmation or ratification as of something otherwise null and void by a court or a grantor...
Sanction
Solemn or ceremonious ratification an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body establishment or furtherance of anything by giving authority to it confirmation approbation...
Church
Church, includes any chapel or other building generally used for public Christian worship. (Christian Marriage Act, 1872, s. 3)--The Church of England is a distinct branch of Christ's Church, and is also an institution of the State (see the first clause of Magna Carta), of which the sovereign is the supreme head by Act of Parliament (1 Eliz. c. 1), but in what sense is not agreed. According to Sir Wiliam Anson, the sovereign is head of the Church, 'not for the purpose of discharging and spiritual function, but because the Church is the National Church, and as such is built into the fabric of the State' (Law and Custom of the Constitution). 'The establishment of the Churchby law,' says Lord Selborne, 'consists essentially in the incorporation of the law of the Church into that of the realm, as a branch of the general law of the realm, though limited as to the causes to which, and the persons to whom it applies; in the public recognition of its Courts and Judges, as having proper legal j...
Confirmation
Confirmation, a species of conveyance by which a voidable estate is made valid and unavoidable, or by which a particular estate is increased. Estates which are void cannot be confirmed, but only those which are voidable, Watkin's Conv. 321. A confirmation may make a voidable or defeasible estate good, but it cannot work upon an estate that is void at law, Co. Litt. 295 b.Confirmation in Scotland is the ratification by a competent Court of an appointment of executors, and confers a title to uplift, administer, and dispose of the personal estate of the deceased. When the appointment of the executor has been made by the deceased, the appointee is called an executor-nominate and the confirmation a testament testamentor. When the appointment has been made by the Court, the appointee is called an executor-dative, and the confirmation a testament-dative....
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