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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 882 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ATTESTATION (See also:Lat. adtestare, attestare, to See also:bear See also:witness, testis, a witness) , the verification of a See also:deed, will or Other See also:instrument by the See also:signature to it of a witness or witnesses, who endorse or subscribe their names under a memorandum, to the effect that it was signed or executed in their presence. The essence of attestation is to show that at the See also:execution of the document there was See also:present some disinterested See also:person capable of giving See also:evidence as to what took See also:place. The clause at the end of the instrument, immediately preceding the signatures of the witnesses to the execution, and stating that they have .witnessed it, is known as the attestation clause. In Scots See also:law, the corresponding clause is called the testing-clause (see DEED; WILL OR TESTAMENT; WITNESS).

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