Confirmatio

The conveyance of an estate or the communication of a right that one hath in or unto lahds 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.

— Confirmatio crescens. An enlarging confirmation ; one which enlarges a rightful estate. Shep. Touch. 311.

— Confirmatio diminuens. A diminishing confirmation. A confirmation which tends and serves to diminish and abridge the services whereby a tenant doth hold, operating as a release df part of the services. Shep. Touch. 311.

— Confirmatio perfidens. A confirmation which makes valid a wrongful and defeasible title, or makes a conditional estate absolute. Shep. Touch. 311.

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In old English law. A confirmation. Conflrmatio chartai'um: confirmation of the claarters; a statute passed 25 Edw. I. confirming Magna charta and the Carta de Foresta. Conflrmatio crescens: an increasing or enlarging confirmation; a confirmation which enlarges a rightful estate. Conflrmatio diminuens: a diminishing confirmation; a confirmation which releases part of the services by which the estate is held. Conflrmatio est prions juris et dominii adepti flrmatio, cum prima firmitate donationis; nihil^enim novi attribnit, sed jus vetus consolidat et conflrmat: a confirmation is a making firm of a former right and ownership already obtained, with the first strength of the gift; for it confers nothing new, but consolidates and confirms the old right. Conflrmatio est nulla, ubi donum praicedens est invalidum: a confirmation is null, where the preceding gift is invalid; that is, it has no effect to strengthen a void estate. Conflrmatio omnes snpplet defectus, licet id quod actum est ab initio non raluit: a confirmation supplies all defects, although that which has been done was not originally valid. Conflrmatio omnem supplet defectum: confirmation supplies all defect. Conflrmatio perficiens: a perfecting confirmation; a confirmation which serves to confirm and make good a wrongful and defeasible estate, or to make a conditional estate absolute.

The conveyanes of an estate, or the communication of a right that one hath in or unte lands or tenements, to anotber 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.

Lat. [from confirmare, q. v.] A confirmation. Confirmatio est prioris juris et dominii adeptifirmatio, cum prima firmitate donationis; nihil enim novi attribuit, sed jus vetus consolidat et confirmat. A confirmation is a making firm of a former right and ownership already obtained, with the first strength of the gift, [i. e. with all the strength it could have had from the original gift;] for it confers nothing new, but consolidates and confirms the old right. Bract, fol. 58. €oailrniatlo eat nalla, nbl doaaai pni* cedens e»t la Talidlaai« A confirmation ifl null, where the preceding gift is invalid; that is, it has no effect to strengthen a void estate. Co. Litt, 295 b. See Confirmation. Coaflraiatio onues sapplct d«r«ctn«, UU c«t M «B«d actam «•( ah iaitio aoa ralafc A confirmation supplies all defects, although that which has been done was not origina Uy valid. Co. Litt, 295 b. Confirmatio supplevit defectum. Bract, fol. 271. Confirmatio PKa FioiBNS. L. Lat. A perfecting confirmation. A confirmation which 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 the condition.] Shep. Touch, (by Preston,) 311. CoNFiRMAiio oRESCENs. L. Lat. An increasing or enlarging confirmation. A confirmation which tends and serves to increase and enlarge a rightful estate, and so to pass an interest, [viz. an estate.] Shep, Touch, ub, sup, Confirmatio Di MiNUBKS. L. Lai. A diminishing confirmation. A confirmation which tends and serves to diminish and abridge the services whereby a tenant doth hold, [operating as a release of part of th« services.] Shep. Touch, ub. sup. CONFIRMATIO (or CONFIRMA- TIONES) CHARTARUM. Lat. Confirmation of the charters. The title of a statute passed 25 Edw. I. confirming Magna Ckarta, and the Charter of the Forest, and by which the former is directed 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 constantly denounced against all those that, by word, deed or counsel, act contrary thereto, or in any degree infringe it. 1 BL Com. 128. It is in the form of a charter or letters patent. Crabb*s Hist. E^ig, Law, 173. 2 Eeeves' HxH. 101, 102.