Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

homologation

Civil law. 1. Confirmation, esp. of a court granting its approval to some action. 2. The consent inferred by law from parties' failure, for a tenday period, to complain of an arbitrator's sentence, of an appointment of a syndic (or assignee) of an insolvent, or of a settlement of successions. 3. The approval given by a judge of certain acts and agreements, to render them more binding and executory. - Also termed (in Spanish law) homologacion ([h]oh-moh-loh-gasyohn). See judgment homologating the tableau under JUDGMENT.