Authentication
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In the law of evidence. The act or mode of giving authority or legaj authenticity to a statute, rec. ord, or other written instrument, or a certified copy thereof, so as to render it legally admissible in evidence. An attestation made by a proper officer by G which he certifies that a record is indue form of law, and that the person who certifies it is the ollicer appointed so to do.