Certificate
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In practice
A writing made in any court, and properly authenticated, to give notice to another court of any thing done therein. A written statement, by a person having an official or public status, concerning some matter within his knowledge or authority.
3 Pet. (U. S.) 29; 6 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 324.