Confirmatio Est Nulla

UBI DONum praecedens est Invalidum. A confirmation is null where the preceding gift is invalid. Co. Litt. 295; F. Moore, 764. CONFIRMATIO OMNES SUPPLET DEfectus, licet id quod actum est ab initio non vaiuit. Confirmation supplies all defects, though that which has been done was not valid at the beginning. Co. Litt. 295b. CONFIRMATIO PERFICIENS (Law Lat.)

In old English law. 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.