To make valid by formal authoritative assent (a thing already instituted or ordained); to ratify, sanction.

transitive. Law. To uphold (a judgment or decree of a lower court); to confirm, ratify (a covenant, law, contract, etc.); to uphold the decision of…

transitive. To give legal force to; to make legally valid. Obsolete.

= corroborate, v.

transitive. To make stable, in various senses; to strengthen, render firm or fixed; to render steadfast; to bring into a secure or permanent…

Law. transitive. To ascertain the validity of (an indictment, etc.). Now U.S.

To give legal or formal confirmation to; to confirm (a law, legal act, etc.).

transitive. To give legal validity to; to render valid; to establish the validity of.

To attest the truth or authenticity of; to authenticate.

transitive. To render or declare legally valid; to confirm the validity of (an act, contract, deed, etc.); to legalize.

To strengthen, to confirm; to ratify or render legal, to put into legal effect.

Law. To go through the formalities necessary to the validity of (a legal act, e.g. a bequest, agreement, mortgage, etc.). Hence, to complete and…

To give legal force to; to ratify. Obsolete. rare.

spec. in Scots Law. To ratify or render valid (a deed in itself defective or informal) by some subsequent act which expresses or implies assent to it.

To ratify or confirm by sanction or solemn enactment; to invest with legal or sovereign authority; to make valid or binding.

To render formal: (a) to give legal formality to (a document); (b) to render ceremonious, precise, or rigid; (c) to imbue with formalism.