CERTIFICATE

A written a urance, or official representation, that some act ha.a or has not been done, or some event occurred,· or some legal formality been complied with. Particularly, such written a urance made or i uing from some court, and -designed as a notice of things done therein, or as a warrant or authority, to some other court, judge, or. officer. People v. Foster, 27 Misc. Rep. 576, 58 N. Y. Supp. 574; U. S. v..Ambrose, 108 u'. S. 336, 2 Sup. Ct. 682, 27 L. Ed. 746; Ticonic Bank v. Stack pole, 41 Me. 305..A document in use in the English customhouse. No goods can be exported by cert i'fl,- D C(lte, except foreign goods formerly imported, on which the whole or a part of the customs paid on importation is to be drawn back. Wharton. -Cert!ficate for costs. In English practice. E.A certificate or memorandum ·drawn up and signed by the judge before whom a case was tried. setting out certain facts the existence of wbich must be thus proved before the party is entitled, under ·the statutes, to recover costs. -Certificate into chancery. In English practice..This is a document containing the f opinion of the common-law judges on a question of law submitted to them for their dec i• sion by the chancery court.:....certificate of acknowledgment. The certificate of a notary public, justice of the peace, or other authorized officer, attached to a deed, mortgage, or other instrument, setting forth that the pu- I~ ties. thereto personally appeared before him on U such a date and acknowledged the instrument to be their free and voluntary act and deed. Read v. Loan Co., 68 Ohio, St. 280, 67 N. E. 729, 62 L. R. A. 790, 96.Am. St. Rep. 663.-Certificate of deposit. In the practice of bank" ers. This is a writing acknowledging that the U person named has deposited in the bank a spec- -I 1fied sum of money, and that the same is held subject to be drawn out on his own check or order, or that -of some other person named in the instrument as payee. Murphy v. Pacifir. Bank, 130 Cal. 542, 62 Pac. 1059; First Nat. Bank v. Greenville Nat. Bank, 84 Tex. 40, 19 I S. W. 334; Neall v. U. S., 118 Fed. 706, 56 C. C. A. 31; Hotch ki v. Mosher, 48 N. Y. 482.-Certificate of holder of attached -property..A certificate required by statute, m some states, to be given by a third person who is found in po e ion of property subject to an attachment in the sheriff's hands, setting J forth the amount and character of such property and the nature of the defendant's interest in it. Code Civil Proc. N. Y. § 650.-Certificate of Incorporation. The instrument by which a private corporation ls formed, under general statutes, executed by several persons as incorporators, and setting forth the name of the proposed corporation, the objects for which it K is formed, and such other particulars as· may be required or authorized by law, and filed in some designated public office as evidence of the corporate existe~ce. This is properly distinguished from a "charter," which is a direct legislative grant of corporate existence and powers to named individuals; but practically the cer- L tificate of incorporation or "articles of incorporation" will contain the same enumeration of corporate powers and description of objects and purposes as a charter.-Certifl.cate of tndebtedneH..A form of obligation sometimes i ued b:ypublic or private corporations having practically the same force and effect as a bond, u though not usually secured on any specific prop- IU [s. 189]