ratihabition
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin ratihabitio, from ratus (“fixed, valid”) + habere (“to hold”).
Noun
[edit]ratihabition (countable and uncountable, plural ratihabitions)
- (obsolete, law) confirmation or approbation, as of an act or contract
- 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
- For in , matters criminal , ratihabition or approving of the act does always make the approver guilty
References
[edit]- “ratihabition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.