Ratification
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Acceptance of or assent to an act performed by another; confirmation by a constituent or principal of what has been done by a representative or an agent without original authority. Ratification is particularly used for the confirmation of a clerk in a prebend, &c., formerly conferred on him by the bishop, where the right of patronage is doubted, or Ratihabitdo mandato aequiparatur. - Ratification is equivalent to express command. An abbreviated form of the maxim, omnis ratihabitio retrotrahitur et mandato priori oequiparatur, q. v.