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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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CERTIFICATION, Certificatione, n. A term in Sc. law: “a judicial intimation or order served on a party to a cause, requiring him e.g. to state a defence within a prescribed time. If the order is with certification and the party served fails to comply with it, he will be held pro confesso. Still in common use in legal practice” (A.C.M.). “Used in Church edicts for the election of office-bearers” (Abd.⁹ 1939).Sc. 1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scot. (1793) Bk. iv. Tit. 1. Par. 7:
The certification of the summons, . . . the penalty to be inflicted on the defender, if he shall neither comply with the will of the summons, nor shew a reason why he is not bound by law to comply with it.Sc. 1793 J. Jackson Hist. Sc. Stage 315:
They allowed him the indulgence, with certification, that the presbytery would proceed to judgment at the time appointed, without further delay.Lnk. 1708 Minutes J. P.s Lnk. (S.H.S. 1931) 20:
No . . . craftsman shall receave any greater fees . . . than is above exprest with certificatione, if they shall faill heirin they shall incurr the penalty of the equivalent of the fee.