Confirm

To make firm, or more firm; to give more strength to. The word is held not to impart a warranty in a conveyance of real estate. Used in a conveyance of real estate "confirm" does not impart a warranty. 9 N. Y. 541. To make sure or certain; to give added assurance of truth to; to verify. The word "confirm" sometimes means merely "verify": it is commonly used in that sfense at the meetings of public bodies, who confirm the minutes of their last meeting, not meaning thereby that they give them force, but merely that they declare them accurate (Lord Campbell, C. J., Reg. V. York [1853], 1 E. & B. 504). To make valid or binding by some formal act; to consummate; to ratify. "You can only 'confirm' that which has been already 'entertained' or 'accepted' for you." (Lord Esher, M. R., Ex parte Kearsley, 18 Q. B. D. 173). CONFIRMARE EST ID QUOD PRIUS INflrmum fuit simul firmare. To confirm is to make firm what was before infirm. Co. Litt. 295. CONFIRMARE NEMO POTEST PRIUS quam jus el accident. No one can confirm before the right accrues to him. 10 Coke, 48. CONFIRMAT USUM QUI TOLLIT ABUSum. He confirms a use who removes an abuse. F. Moore, 764. CONFIRMATIO (Lat. confirmare). The conveyance of an estate, or the communication of a right that one hath in or unto lands or tenements, to another that hath the possession thereof, or some other estate therein,.whereby a voidable estate is made sure and unavoidable, or whereby a particular estate is increased or enlarged. Shep. Touch. 311; 2 Bl. Comm. 325. Confvrmatio crescens tends and serves to increase or enlarge a rightful estate, and so to pass an interest. Confirmatio diminuens tends or serves to diminish and abridge the services whereby the tenant holds. Confirmatio perficiens tends and serves to confirm and make good a wrongful and defeasible estate, by adding the right to the possession' or defeasible seisin, or to make a conditional estate absolute, by discharging tiie condition. CONFIRMATIO CHARTARUM (Lat. confirmation of the charters). A statute passed in 25 Edw. I., whereby the Great Charter is declared to be allowed as the common law; all judgments contrary to it are declared void; copies of it are ordered to be sent to all cathedral churches, and read twice a year to the people; and sentence of excommunication is directed to be as constantjiy denounced against all those that, by word or

v. Confirmare; Confirmation.

To complete or establish that which was imperfect or uncertain; to ratify what has been done without authority or insufficiently. K Confirmare est id firmum facere quod prius infirmum fuit. Co. Litt. 295. To confirm is to make firm that which was before infirm, Confirmare nemo potest prius quam L jus ei acciderit. No one can conlirm be fore tle right acerues to him. 10 Coke, 48. Confirmat usum qui tollit abusum. He confirms the use [of a thing] who removes the abuse, [of it.] Moore, 764.

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