affirmer legal definition of affirmer. affirmer synonyms by the Free Online Law Dictionary.

To ratify, establish, or reassert. To make a solemn and formal declaration, as a substitute for an oath, that the statements contained in an Affidavit are true or that a witness will tell the truth. In the practice of appellate courts, to declare a judgment, decree, or order valid and to concur in its correctness so that it must stand as rendered in the lower court. As a matter of Pleading, to allege or aver a matter of fact.

A judgment, decree, or order that is not affirmed is either remanded (sent back to the lower court with instructions to correct the irregularities noted in the appellate opinion) or reversed (changed by the appellate court so that the decision of the lower court is overturned).

affirm v. what an appeals court does if it agrees with and confirms a lower court's decision.

TO AFFIRM, practice. 1. To ratify or confirm a former law or judgment, as when the supreme court affirms the judgment of the court of common pleas.
2. To make an affirmation, or to testify under an affirmation.

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" Berdyaev is not simply an affirmer of the Absolute but also of human dignity, an assent inherent in the principle of Godmanhood that figured considerably in the multiform "Russian Religious Renaissance," as Berdyaev called the movement that reached its pinnacle in the early years of the twentieth century and is also referred to as the Silver Age of Russian philosophy. Revisiting Nikolai Berdyaev by Panichas, George A. / Modern Age I treasure your friendship because we are steadfast affirmers of Diety and that makes us profoundly one. Christian ecumenism and Judeo-Baptist relations in Savannah, Georgia by Shriver, George H. / Baptist History and Heritage Ses tableaux et sa documentation sont en perpetuel mouvement autour d'elle, l'effleurent, meme; de quoi se meprendre entre realite et fiction - A ce point, seulement, peut-on affirmer que l'art se vit Si on pouvait saisir les murmures de la nature by CHARLEBOIS, ERIC / Northern Ontario Business More results

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" Berdyaev is not simply an affirmer of the Absolute but also of human dignity, an assent inherent in the principle of Godmanhood that figured considerably in the multiform "Russian Religious Renaissance," as Berdyaev called the movement that reached its pinnacle in the early years of the twentieth century and is also referred to as the Silver Age of Russian philosophy.

Revisiting Nikolai Berdyaev by Panichas, George A. / Modern Age

I treasure your friendship because we are steadfast affirmers of Diety and that makes us profoundly one.

Christian ecumenism and Judeo-Baptist relations in Savannah, Georgia by Shriver, George H. / Baptist History and Heritage

Ses tableaux et sa documentation sont en perpetuel mouvement autour d'elle, l'effleurent, meme; de quoi se meprendre entre realite et fiction - A ce point, seulement, peut-on affirmer que l'art se vit

Si on pouvait saisir les murmures de la nature by CHARLEBOIS, ERIC / Northern Ontario Business

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