ratihabeo
Latin
Etymology
From ratus (“fixed, established, settled”), perfect passive participle of reor, + habeō (“have”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /raˈta.be.oː/, [räˈt̪äbeoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /raˈta.be.o/, [räˈt̪äːbeo]
Verb
ratihabeō (present infinitive ratihabēre, perfect active ratihabuī, supine ratihabitum); second conjugation
- (law, Medieval Latin, New Latin) to confirm, to approve, to sanction, to ratify
- 1745, Christian Wolff, Jus naturae methodo scientifica pertractatum, volume 5: De contractibus onerosis reliquis, quasi contractibus, modis tollendi obligationem ex contractu, et de jure in re sua alteri constituto, veluti pignore, hypotheca et servitutibus, Hala Magdeburgica, § 536, page 365:
- 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.