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homologation Chiefly Sc.|həʊmɒləˈgeɪʃən| [ad. med.L. homologātiōn-em, n. of action f. homologāre (see prec.). Cf. F. homologation (16th c.).] The action of homologating; assent, ratification, confirmation. Mostly in legal use; spec. in Sc. Law (see prec. 1 b).
1656Blount Glossogr., Homologation, an admission, allowance, or approbation, a consent unto. 1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 318 One's subscribing as witness to a deed, does not infer homologation. 1818Colebrooke Treat. Obligat. I. 128 A recognition, confirming and ratifying an obligation, to which an exception might be opposed, or for the rescission of which an action might be sustained, is termed homologation. It is approval, or assent-subsequent. 1849Tait's Mag. XVI. 422 A distinct categorical homologation of our principle. 1861W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl., Homologation, is a technical expression, signifying an act by which a person approves of a deed; the effect of such approbatory act, being to render that deed, though itself defective, binding upon the person by whom it is homologated. All deeds, informal or defective, may be homologated. |