Affirm

[Lat. affirmare, to make firm; L. Fr. affirmer.] In practice. To ratify, or confirm a former law, or judgment.

Cowell. Blount.

Used in this sense by West, and Crompton.

West Symbol. part 2, tit.

Fines, sect.

152. Crompt.

Jurisd. fol.

166.

Now particularly applied to the confirmation, by a court of appeal, of the judgment of an inferior court; the opposite of reverse, (q. v.) To ratify or confirm a former act. See Affirmance. To assert, or declare solemnly, instead of making oath. See Affirmation. To aver, or state a thing in pleading; the opposite of deny, or traverse, (qq. v.) Steph. Pl. 84.