Acknowledgment
Acknowledgment
Acknowledgment (law), in U.S. law, the act of avowing before a proper officer or a court that one has executed a legal instrument, and of obtaining a certificate that admits the instrument as evidence in a legal proceeding without further proof of its genuineness. A commissioner of deeds or notary public is the regular officer before whom acknowledgments are made, although judges, clerks of court, mayors of cities, and in some states aldermen and justices of the peace are authorized to take acknowledgments. In all cases the acknowledgment must be signed by the person in whose presence it is made. (1)
Description of Acknowledgment
Acknowledgment
Acknowledgment
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- Receipt
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- Attestation clause
- Certificate of acknowledgment
- Jurat
- Notary public
- Verification
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The Legal History of Acknowledgment (Avowal; Iqr_r)
This section provides an overview of Acknowledgment (Avowal; Iqr_r)
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- Legal Biography
- Legal Traditions
- Historical Laws
- History of Law
Further Reading
- Acknowledgment (Avowal; Iqr_r) in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- Acknowledgment (Avowal; Iqr_r) in the Dictionary of Concepts in History, by Harry Ritter
- A Short History of Western Legal Theory, by John Kelly