Verification Law and Legal Definition
Verification is the legal context refers to a declaration under oath or upon penalty of perjury that a statement or pleading is true. The verification is located at the end of a document. If a complaint is verified then the answer to the complaint must be verified. False information given in a verified legal pleading is subject to penalties for perjury.
The following is an example of a verification:
"The Complainant named in the foregoing Complaint being duly sworn, says that the facts and allegations contained therein are true, except so far as they are therein stated to be on information, and that, so far as they are therein stated to be on information she/he believes them to be true.Executed January 1, 2005, at Cleveland, Ohio. (signed) Dollie Altman, declarant."
Legal Definition list
- Verifiable Production Records [Agriculture]
- Verifiable Parental Consent
- Vergens Ad Inopiam
- Verdict Subject to Opinion of Court
- Verdict of Not Guilty
- Verification
- Verification of a Trademark
- Verified Negative Drug Test Result [Aeronautics and Space]
- Verified Petition
- Verified Positive Drug Test Result [Aeronautics and Space]
- Veritas Convicii
Related Legal Terms
- Alien Status Verification Index
- Ambiguitas Verborum Latens Verificatione Suppletur; Nam Quod Ex Facto Oritur Ambiguum Verificatione Facti Tollitur
- Ambiguitas Verborum Patens Nulla Verificatione Excluditur
- Ambiguitas Verborum Patents Nulla Verificatione Excluditur
- Benefit Verification Letter
- Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation [Department of State]
- Certification Of Non Collusion And Verification
- Confession Relicta Verificatione
- Contract Verification Service
- Employee Verification Service
