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Confirmation

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

Confirmation of Bishop

Confirmation of Bishop, the ratification by the arch-bishop of the election of a bishop by dean and chapter under the king's letter missive

Church

settle in any privilege or possession, to confirm'; and of the word 'establishment,' 'confirmation of something already done, ratification'; and the use of these words, with reference to the church of England, in Acts of Parliament and

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Sanction

Solemn or ceremonious ratification an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some

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

equal rights amendment (era)

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.

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

Ultra vires

be outside the Memorandum of Association, neither binds the company nor can be made binding upon it by ratification. See also Att. Gen. v. Mersey Ry., 1907 AC 415; Baroness Wenlock v. River Dee Co., ubi supra;

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