1. To note to another that something is agreed or is true. 2. To swear into office, to formally install into a position.
Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition
To complete or establish that which was Imperfect or uncertain; to ratify what has been done without authority or insufficiently. Boggs v. Mining Co., 14 Cal 305; Railway Co. v. Ransom, 15 Tex. Civ. App. 689, 41 S. W. 826. Conflrmaro est id flrmum faoere quod prius infirmum fuit. Co. Litt 295. To confirm is to make firm that which was before infirm. Confirmaro nemo potest prius quam jus el accident. No one can confirm before the right accrues to him. 10 Coke, 48. Confirmat usum qui tollit abusum. He confirms the use [of a thing! who removes the abuse, [of it] Moore, 764.