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Meaning of ratihabeo | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2
[raˈta.be.oː]

Definitions

to confirm, to approve, to sanction, to ratify

Medieval-Latin, New-Latin, conjugation-2

Equivalents

Examples

“Suam igitur acceptationem ratihabuerunt Galliæ Episcopi, eam ratihabuerunt persæpe, eam ratihabuerunt eo tempore quo plena erat libertas: […]”
“[…] 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, […]”
“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.

“Geuehardus & Johannes de Monte venditionem fratris sui Henrici Monasterio in Lune factam ratihabent 396.”
“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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