Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
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.
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.
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.
silent confirmation
A bank's confirmation based on the request of the beneficiary of the credit rather than the issuing bank.