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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 149 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT (from the old acknow, a See also:compound of on- and know, to know by the senses, which passed through the forms oknow, aknow and acknow; acknowledge is formed on See also:analogy of " knowledge ") , an See also:admission that something has been given or done, a See also:term used in See also:law in various connexions. The acknowledgment of a See also:debt, if in See also:writing signed by the debtor or his See also:agent, is sufficient to take it out of the Statutes of Limitations. The See also:signature to a will by a testator, if not made in the presence of two witnesses, may be afterwards acknowledged in their presence. The acknowledgment by a woman married before 1882 of deeds for the See also:conveyance of real See also:property not her See also:separate property, requires to be made by her before a See also:judge of the High See also:Court or of a See also:county court or before a perpetual or See also:special See also:commissioner. Before such an acknowledgment can be received, the judge or commissioner is required to examine her apart from her See also:husband, touching her knowledge of the See also:deed, and to ascertain whether she freely and voluntarily consents to it. An acknowledgment to the right of the See also:production of deeds of conveyance is an See also:obligation on the vendor, when he retains any portion of the property to which 'the deeds relate, and is entitled to retain the deeds, to produce them from See also:time to time at the See also:request of the See also:person to whom the acknowledgment is given, to allow copies to be made, and to undertake for their safe custody (See also:Conveyancing See also:Act 1881, s. 9). The term " acknowledgment " is, in the See also:United States, applied to the certificate of a public officer that an See also:instrument was acknowledged before him to be the deed or act of the person who executed it. " Acknowledgment See also:money " is the sum paid in some parts of See also:England by See also:copyhold tenants on the See also:death of the See also:lord of the See also:manor.

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