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Admission of the truth of a statement or validity of a document. See also Attest.

1. Banking. A notification by a paying bank that an item presented for payment has been paid, or that it cannot be honored. See also Wire Fate Item.

2. Securities. A verification, by an authorized official, that a customer's signature is genuine, required when transferring accounts to another broker or fiduciary.

noun

1. The act of admitting to something: admission, avowal, confession. See affirm/deny/argue, knowledge/ignorance, show/hide.
2. Favorable notice, as of an achievement: credit, recognition. See knowledge/ignorance.

Definition: act of recognizing authority or truth of something
Antonyms: disavowal, negation

To acknowledge is to admit, affirm, declare, testify, avow, confess, or own as genuine. Admission or affirmation of obligation or responsibility. Most states have adopted the Uniform Acknowledgment Act.

The partial payment of a debt, for example, is considered an acknowledgment of it for purposes of tolling the statute of limitations — the time set by law for bringing a lawsuit — based on a person's failure to repay a debtor. State law usually gives a creditor six years from the date a debt is due, according to the creditor's contract with the debtor, to sue for nonpayment. If, on the last day of the fifth year, the debtor repays any part of the loan, the statute of limitations is tolled or suspended. The creditor then has another six years from the date of partial payment to sue the debtor for the balance of the loan. The debtor's partial payment indicates acceptance of responsibility to pay the loan. If the debtor had not paid anything, he or she would have escaped liability six years after the date the loan was due.

An acknowledgment of paternity means recognition of parental duties — such as financial support of an illegitimate child — by written agreement, verbal declaration, or conduct of the father toward the mother and child that clearly demonstrates recognition of paternity.

The requirement for acknowledgments on certain documents — such as deeds transferring the ownership of real property, wills giving the ownership of property to a decedent's heirs after death, or documentary evidence that is to be admitted in a legal proceeding — is established by state law. If such documents do not contain acknowledgments, they are ineffective and cannot be used in any legal proceedings.

Any or all of the parties to a document may be required to acknowledge it. Only those persons specified by law, a notary public, for example, may take an acknowledgment. Usually, a person making an acknowledgment does not have to explain the contents of the document to the person taking the acknowledgment. A person who ordinarily takes an acknowledgment might be disqualified from doing so if that person stands to gain some benefit from or has a financial interest in the outcome of the transaction. For example, state law requires a person making a will, a testator, to make an acknowledgment to a certain number of witnesses that the document is the genuine expression of how that person wants his or her property disposed of upon his or her death. Suppose the state requires two witnesses. If the people selected as witnesses have financial interests in the person's will, they will be disqualified for purposes of acknowledgment. This is done to deter dishonest people from fabricating a document that is beneficial to them. Such a will is legally ineffective; once the testator dies, his or her property will be transferred according to the laws of descent and distribution.

A certificate of acknowledgment, sometimes referred to as the acknowledgment, is evidence that the acknowledgment has been done properly. Although its contents may vary from state to state, the certificate must recite: (1) that acknowledgment before the proper officer was made by the person who completed the document; (2) the place where the acknowledgment took place; and (3) the name and authority of the officer. The certificate may be on the document itself or may be attached to it as a separate instrument.

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• Laws, Procedures, and Court Proceedings - acknowledgment: formal declaration that one has executed a particular legal document

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Acknowledge or acknowledgment (also spelled acknowledgement) may refer to:

• Acknowledgment (creative arts) (and scientific literature and writing), a statement of gratitude for assistance in producing a work
  • Acknowledgment index, an experimental method for automatically analyzing acknowledgements in the scientific literature
• Acknowledgment (law), a declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity
  • Service of process, Acknowledgment of service
• Acknowledgement of receipt, a postal service

Telecommunication

• Acknowledgement (data networks), a signal used to indicate acknowledgement, specifically:
  • ACK, a flag used in the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to acknowledge receipt of a packet
  • Acknowledge character, an ASCII control character
  • Negative-acknowledge character, an ASCII control character

See also

• All pages beginning with "acknowledg"
• All pages with titles containing "acknowledg"
• ACK (disambiguation)
• Credit (creative arts), acknowledgment given to someone in the creative arts

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - bekræftelse, erkendelse, indrømmelse

idioms:

• acknowledgement of receipt    bekræftelse af modtagelse
• acknowledgement of sources    kildebekræftelse

Français (French)
n. - reconnaissance, approbation, aveu, reçu, récipissé, quittance, accusé de réception, remerciements (dans une préface)

idioms:

• acknowledgement of sources    remerciements, citation des sources

Deutsch (German)
n. - Anerkennung, Bekenntnis

idioms:

• acknowledgement of sources    Quellenangabe, Quellennachweis

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αναγνώριση, παραδοχή, ομολογία, βεβαίωση (λήψης), ευχαριστία

idioms:

• acknowledgement of receipt    βεβαίωση λήψης
• acknowledgement of sources    απαρίθμηση πηγών, βιβλιογραφία

Italiano (Italian)
riconoscimento, ammissione, riconoscenza, ricevuta, cenno di saluto

idioms:

• acknowledgement of receipt    ricevuta
• acknowledgement of sources    indicazione delle fonti

Português (Portuguese)
n. - reconhecimento (m), confissão (f), atentado (m), confirmação

idioms:

• acknowledgement of receipt    confirmação de recebimento
• acknowledgement of sources    reconhecimento de origens

Русский (Russian)
признание, подтверждение

idioms:

• acknowledgement of receipt    уведомление о получении
• acknowledgement of sources    ссылка на источники

Español (Spanish)
n. - reconocimiento, acuse de recibo

idioms:

• acknowledgement of sources    referencia a las fuentes

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - erkännande, bekräftelse, kvitto

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
承认, 致谢, 答谢的表示, 确认, 谢礼

idioms:

• acknowledgement of receipt    回执
• acknowledgement of sources    确认来源

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 承認, 致謝, 答謝的表示, 確認, 謝禮

idioms:

• acknowledgement of receipt    回執
• acknowledgement of sources    確認來源

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 승인, 자백, 영수증, 감사, 답례품

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 承認, 自認, 受取りの通知, 感謝のしるし

idioms:

• acknowledgement of receipt    受領通知・証明
• acknowledgement of sources    参考文献

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮הכרה, הודאה, תודה, אות תודה, אישור‬

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