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To ratify, make firm, confirm, establish, reassert. To ratify or confirm a former law or judgment Cowell. In the practice of appellate courts, to affirm a judgment, decree, or order, is to declare that it is valid and right, and must stand as rendered below; to ratify and reassert it; to concur in its correctness and confirm its efficacy. In pleading. To allege or aver a matter … [Read more...] about AFFIRM

L. Lat. To file or affile. Affiletur, let it be filed. 8 Coke, 160. De re cordo affilatum, affiled of record. 2 Ltd. Raym. 1476. … [Read more...] about AFFLLARE

The person who makes and subscribes an affidavit. The word is used, in this sense, interchangeably with "deponent" But the latter term should foe reserved as the designation of one who makes a deposition. … [Read more...] about AFFIANT

In practice. The confirming, or ratifying a former law, or judgment. Cowell; Blount. The confirmation and ratification by an apellate court of a judgment, order, or decree of a lower court brought before it for review. See Affirm.. A dismissal of an appeal for want of prosecution is not an "affirmance" of the judgment. Drummond v. Husson, 14 N. Y. 60. The ratification or … [Read more...] about AFFIRMANCE

To set a price or value on a thing. Blount. … [Read more...] about AFFORARE