Diploma

An Instrument of writing, executed by a corporation or society, certifying that a certain person therein named is entitled to a certain distinction therein mentioned. It is usually granted by learned institutions to their members, or to persons who have studied in them. by a prince. They are so called, it is supposed, a duplicatis tabellis, to which Ovid is thought to allude (1 Arom. 12. 2. 27) when he says. Tunc ego vos duplices rebus pro nomine sensi (Sueton. in Augustum, c. 26). Seals also were called "diplomata." Vicat.

An instrument of writing, executed by a corporation or society, certifying that a certain person therein named is entitled to a certain distinction therein mentioned. It is usually granted by learned institutions to their members or to persons who have studied in them. Proof of the seal of a medical institution and of the signatures of its officers thereto affixed, by comparison with the seal and signatures attached to a diploma received by the witness from the same institution, has been held to be competent evidence of the genuineness of the instrument, although the witness never saw the officers write their names; Finch v. Gridley'S Kx'rs, 25 Wend. (X. Y.) 4(1'.). A diploma is evidence that a physician received a degree from a medical institution; Holmes v. Balde, Ti Me. 28, 43 Am. Hep. 567. This word, which Is also written duploma, in the civil law signifies letters Issued by a prince. They are so called it is supposed, a duplicatia tabt His, to which Ovid is thought to allude, 1 Amor, 12, '-'. "~, when he says, Tunc ego vos duplices rebus pro nomine sensi. Sueton. in Augustum, c. C6. Hmsonius p. 367. Seals also were called Diplomata. Vlcat, Diploma. Sec College.

In the civil law. A royal charter; letiers patent granted by a prince or sovereign. Calvin. An instrument given by colleges and sccieties on the conferring of any degrees. A license granted to a physician, ete., to practice his art or profession, See 25 Wend. 460.