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Latin
Etymology
From ratus (“fixed, established, settled”), perfect passive participle of reor, + habeō (“have”).
Pronunciation
Verb
ratihabeō (present infinitive ratihabēre, perfect active ratihabuī, supine ratihabitum); second conjugation
- (law, Medieval Latin, New Latin) to confirm, to approve, to sanction, to ratify
1720, Jean Joseph Languet de La Villeneuve de Gergy, Prima institutio pastoralis continens , page 347:Suam igitur acceptationem ratihabuerunt Galliæ Episcopi, eam ratihabuerunt persæpe, eam ratihabuerunt eo tempore quo plena erat libertas: […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1730, Carolus-Gottofredus Engelschall, Dissertatio ... de renunciatione juris ... praeside Jo. Godofr. Kraus, page 53:[…] adceptationemque a fratre factam, ratihabuerunt, aut non? […] Posteriori vero omnino, si nimirum tempore intermedio, donec ceteri de negotio resciverunt, & illud acceptaverunt, vel ratihabuerunt, paciscentes a conventione resiliant , & acceptans frater jus suum renuncianti remittat, […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1745, Christian Wolff, Jus naturae methodo scientifica pertractatum, volume 5: De contractibus onerosis reliquis, quasi contractibus, modis tollendi obligationem ex contractu, et de jure in re sua alteri constituto, veluti pignore, hypotheca et servitutibus, Hala Magdeburgica, § 536, page 365:Quodsi ergo patitur negotium suum geri ab alterio, nec contradicit; non facto suo declarat velle sese ut gerat, consequenter gestionem tacite ratihabet, antequam fuerit absoluta. Sed quando gestor gestionem ratihabet, antequam fuerit absoluta; gestio negotiorum in mandatum abit.- If it is suffered that the business is performed by someone else and it is not gainsaid nor by deed declared by the principal that it should be performed, consequentially he confirms the performance. But if he who performs confirms the performance before it is carried out, the negotiorum gestio transforms into a mandate.
1754, Christian Ludwig Scheidt, Historische und diplomatische Nachrichten von dem hohen und niedern Adel in Teutschland, page 592:Geuehardus & Johannes de Monte venditionem fratris sui Henrici Monasterio in Lune factam ratihabent 396.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1834, Karl Sell, De condictionibus quaestiones duae, page 87:Priusquam solutione ejus, qui ratihabuit, falsi procuratoris liberatio contigerit, de hujus locupletatione sermo esse nequit. Quare condictioni indebiti tamdiu deest fundamentum, quamdiu solventi is, qui ratihabuit, non satisfecit.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1859, F. P. Van de Burgt, Tractatus de matrimonio, page 10:Personalis adest consensus quando vel per seipsos vel per alios (per procuratores) de suo mandato matrimonium celebrant, et etiam, ut mihi videtur, quando matrimonium, quod ipsis insciis celebratum est, ratihabent, seu quod factum est approbant.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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