Definition of Ratification

1. Noun. Making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it. "Confirmation of the appointment"

Exact synonyms: Confirmation
Generic synonyms: Agreement
Derivative terms: Confirm, Ratify

Definition of Ratification

1. n. The act of ratifying; the state of being ratified; confirmation; sanction; as, the ratification of a treaty.

Definition of Ratification

1. Noun. the act or process of ratifying, or the state of being ratified ¹

2. Noun. a formal declaration of agreement to a treaty etc ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ratification

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ratification

ratherish
rathest
rathite
rathole
ratholed
ratholes
ratholing
rathripe
rathripes
raths
rathskellers
raticide
raticides
ratifiable
ratification
ratifications
ratified
ratifier
ratifiers
ratifies
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ratihabition
ratihabitions
ratine
ratines
rating
rating system
ratings

Literary usage of Ratification

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1912)
"Without doubt, a refusal to ratify must be presumed from the lapse of an unreasonable time without ratification having been made. In most cases, however, ..."

2. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"In most cases, however, treaties which are in need of ratification now contain a clause stipulating that they are subject to ratification, ..."

3. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1905)
"A State refusing ratification will always have reasons for such line of action which ... In practice, ratification is given or withheld at discretion. ..."

4. Principles of the English Law of Contract and of Agency in Its Relation to by William Reynell Anson (1884)
"It was argued that the liability had passed, by ratification, ... Ratification can only be by a person ascertained at the time of the act done,—by a person ..."

5. The Law of Contracts by Theophilus Parsons (1883)
"323 OP Ratification. As the liability of the infant is defeated by the law, for his protection, therefore, as we have already seen, when he is of full age, ..."

6. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1866)
"But the reason of this usage, which may be traced back to the remotest time, sufficiently shows, that if one of the two parties duly offers his ratification ..."

7. Principles of the English Law of Contract and of Agency in Its Relation to by William Reynell Anson, Ernest Wilson Huffcut (1899)
"deceased person, if it is done by order of one who afterwards becomes administrator and ratifies the contract for the work so done, such a ratification ..."

8. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"As we have said the brief of counsel, on this latter proposition, goes upon the theory of ratification of unauthorized acts of agency. ..."

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