AFFIRM

To ratify, make firm, confirm, establish, rea ert. To ratify or confirm a rormer law or judg- H ment. Cowell. Jn the practice of appellate courts, to afli,rm a judgment, decree, or order, is to declare that it is valid and right, and must stand as rendered below; to ratify and rea ert it; to I concur in its correctne and confirm its eff i. cacy. In pleading, To allege or aver a matter of fact; to state it affirmatively; the opposite of deny or traverse. In practice, To make affirmation; to J make a solemn and formal declaration or a everation that an affidavit is true, that the witne wlll tell the truth, etc., this being substituted for an ~nth in certain rases. K Also, to give testimony on affirmation. In the law of contracts. A party is said to affirm a contract, the same.being voidal.Jle at his election, when he ratifies and_ accepts it, waives his right to annul it, and proceeds under it as if it had been valid L originally. [s. 53]