Electoral Vote Transmission
State officials prepare sealed lists of presidential electors' votes and transmit them to the Senate. The President of the Senate opens the certificates in joint session and the votes are counted to determine the winner.
Also known as: certificates · cert.
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A document formally attesting to a fact or status. The attestation may establish identity, rehabilitation, formation of an entity, or compliance with procedural requirements.
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State officials prepare sealed lists of presidential electors' votes and transmit them to the Senate. The President of the Senate opens the certificates in joint session and the votes are counted to determine the winner.
A plaintiff obtains a judgment in State A and seeks to enforce it in State B. The clerk of the State A court attaches a certificate confirming the judgment's authenticity, allowing the State B court to give it full faith and credit.
A witness was convicted of perjury years earlier. After completing a state rehabilitation program, a board issues a certificate finding the witness rehabilitated. The opposing party cannot use the conviction to impeach because the certificate satisfies the rehabilitation exception.
An LLC files its certificate of organization. Later the members decide to change the registered agent. They deliver an amendment to the secretary of state, which updates the public record without dissolving the entity.
A couple completes a marriage application, pays the fee, and provides proof of age and non-prohibition. The clerk issues both the license and a marriage certificate form that the couple will complete after the ceremony.
A party presents a signed contract to a notary who executes an acknowledgment. The document is now self-authenticating under the evidence rules because it is accompanied by the notary's certificate of acknowledgment.
A certificate of rehabilitation bars impeachment when it is based on a finding that the person has been rehabilitated and the person has not been convicted of a later serious crime. The rule treats the certificate as an equivalent procedure to a pardon or annulment that removes the conviction from the pool of impeachable offenses.
The document must be accompanied by a certificate of acknowledgment lawfully executed by a notary public or another officer authorized to take acknowledgments. Once that certificate is present, the document is presumed authentic without further foundation.
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…hospital access; medical decisionmaking authority; adoption rights; the rights and benefits of survivors; birth and death certificates; professional ethics rules; campaign finance restrictions; workers’ compensation benefits; health insurance; and child custody, support, and visitation rules. See Brief for United States as…
…property of the individual defendants in Delaware was stock in Greyhound Corp., which was incorporated in Delaware. The stock certificates were not physically present in Delaware, but under Delaware law, the situs of the stock was deemed to be in Delaware. The individual defendants, whose primary residences and places of…
…to judicial review. Second, the owner may apply to the Commission for a certificate
…morning sickness to about 17.5 million pregnant women in the United States between 1957 and 1982. See Resp't's Br. on Writ of Cert.
Yes. The statute expressly permits amendment or restatement of the certificate of organization at any time. The LLC simply delivers the amendment to the secretary of state for filing, which updates the public record without affecting the entity's existence.
After the couple marries, the officiant completes the marriage certificate form that the clerk issued with the license. The completed certificate serves as the official record of the marriage that is filed with the state.
The clerk of the rendering court attests to the record and the court seal is affixed. A judge then certifies that the clerk's attestation is in proper form. Once authenticated this way, the record receives full faith and credit in every other court.