Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Confirm
ub. 1. To give formal approval to <confirm the bankruptcy plan>. 2. To verify or corroborate <confirm that the order was signed>. 3. To make firm or certain <the judgment confirmed the plaintiff's right to possession>.
Confirmare est id quod prius infzrmum fuit simul firmare
To confirm is to make firm at once what before was not firm.
Confirmare nemo potest priusquam jus ei acciderit
No one can confirm before the right accrues to him.
Confirmat usum qui tollit abusum
One confirms a use who removes an abuse. Conjunctio mariti et feminae est de jure naturae. The union of husband and wife derives from the law of nature.
Confirmatio
[Latin "confirmation"] Hist. A confirmation of a voidable estate. See CONFIRMATION (4).
Confirmatio Chartarum
[Latin "confirmation of the charters"] Hist. A declaration first made by Henry III in 1225 confirming the guarantees of Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest. 0 It was not enrolled until 1297, when, during the reign of Edward 1, it was enacted, thus introducing these charters into the common law. - Also spelled Conirmatio Cartarum
Confirmatio est nulla ubi donum praecedens est invalidum
A confirmation is null where the preceding gift is invalid.
Confirmatio omnes supplet defectus, licet id quod actum est ab initio non valuit
Confirmation supplies all defects, even if that which has been done was not valid at the beginning.
Confirmation
n. 1. The act of giving formal approval <Senate confirmation hearings>. 2. The act of verifying or corroborating; a statement that verifies or corroborates <the journalist sought confirmation of the district attorney's remarks>. 3. The act of ratifying a voidable estate; a type of conveyance in which a voidable estate is made certain or a particular estate is increased <deed of confirmation. 4. Civil law. A declaration that corrects a null provision of an obligation in order to make the provision enforceable. 5. Commercial law. A bank's agreement to honor a letter of credit issued by another bank. - confirmatory (ken-far-ma-tor-ee), adj. Cf. RATIFICATION.
Duo sunt instrumenta ad omnes res _aut confirmandas aut impugnandas, ratio el auctoritas
There are two instruments for confirming or impugning everything: reason and authority.
Legatum morte testatoris tantum confirmatur, sicut donatio inter vivos traditione sola
A legacy is confirmed by the death of the testator, in the same manner as a gift from a living person is by delivery alone.
Non valet confirmatio, nisi ille, qui confirmat, sit in possessione rei vel juris uncle fieri debet confirmatio; et eodem modo, nisi ille cui confirmatio fit sit in possessione
Confirmation is not valid unless the person who confirms is in possession either of the thing or of the right of which confirmation is to be made, and, in like manner, unless that person to whom confirmation is made is in possession.
Quae rerum natura prohibentur nulla lege confirmata runt
What is prohibited by the nature of things can be confirmed by no law.
Qui confirmat nihil dat
A person who confirms gives nothing.
Quorum praetextu nec auget nec minuit sententiam, sed tantum confirmat praemissa
"Quorum praetextu" neither increases nor diminishes the meaning, but only confirms what went before.
confirmatio crescens
[Latin "growing confirmation"] A confirmation that enlarges an estate.
confirmatio perficiens
[Latin "perfecting confirmation"] A confirmation that ratifies a wrongful and defeasible title, or makes a conditional estate absolute. See CONFIRMATION (4).
confirmation of sale
A court's approval -usu. in the form of a docket entry or order - of the terms of a court-ordered sale.
confirmation slip
The form verifying a purchase or sale of a security, usu. mailed by the broker to the investor. - Also termed transaction slip; sold note. confirmatio perficiens. See CONFIRMATIO.
confirmavi
[Latin] Hist. I have confirmed. 0 The emphatic word in a deed of confirmation. See CONFIRMATION (3)
confirmed letter of credit
A letter of credit that directly obligates a financing agency (such as a bank) doing business in the seller's financial market to a contract of sale. UCC ยง 2-325(3).
confirmee
Hist. The grantee of a deed of confirmation. See CONFIRMATION (3).
confirming bank.
See BANK.
confirmor
Hist. The grantor of a deed of confirmation. See CONFIRMATION (3).
silent confirmation
A bank's confirmation based on the request of the beneficiary of the credit rather than the issuing bank.