Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Certify

ub. 1. To authenticate or verify in writing. 2. To attest as being true or as meeting certain criteria. 3. (Of a court) to issue an order allowing a class of litigants to maintain a class action; to create (a class) for purposes of a class action. Cf. DECERTIFY. See CERTIFICATION.

Decertify

ub. 1. To revoke the certification of. 2. To remove the official status of (a labor union) by withdrawing the right to act as a collective-bargaining agent. 3. (Of a court) to overrule a previous order that created a class for purposes of a class action; to officially undo (a class). - decertification, n. Cf. CERTIFY.