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Black’s Law Dictionary 1st edition, page 187:
certificate. A written assurance, or official representation, that some act has or has not been done, or some even occurred, or some legal formality been complied with. Particularly, such written assurance made of issuing from some court, and designed as a notice of things done therein, or as a warrant or authority, to some other court, judge, or officer.
A document in use in the English customhouse. No goods can be exported by certificate, except foreign goods formerly imported, on which the whole or a part of the customs paid on importation is to be drawn back. Wharton.
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