Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

acknowledgment.

A recognition of something as being factual. 2. An acceptance of responsibility. 3. The act of making it known that one has received something. 4. A formal declaration made in the presence of an authorized officer, such as a notary public, by someone who signs a document and confirms that the signature is authentic. 0 In most states, the officer certifies that (1) he or she personally knows the document signer or has established the signer's identity through satisfactory evidence, (2) the signer appeared before the officer on the date and in the place (usu. the county) indicated, and (3) the signer acknowledged signing the document freely. Cf. VERIFICATION (I)."An acknowledgment is a verification of the fact of execution, but is not a verification of the contents of the instrument executed; in other words, an acknowledgment is the method of authenticating an instrument by showing it was the act of the person executing it, while a verification is a sworn statement as to the truth of the facts stated within an instrument." lA C.J.S. Acknowledgments § 2 (1985) 5. The officer's certificate that is affixed to the document. - Also termed (in sense 5) certificate of acknowledgment; (loosely) verification. See PROOF OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT.