Legalization
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The act of making lawful. By legalization is also understood the act by which' a judge or competent officer authenticates a record, or other matter, in order that the same may be lawfully read in evidence.
See 102 Mass. 127.