Certificate
A certificate is a document that contains information about a person or other facts . It is mostly issued by authorities as an official certificate , notaries , associations or employers .
etymology
The certificate or Attestation as a general "by appearances validly testified confirmation of certain facts" can be found as early as the late Middle Ages in the increasingly German firm language . The German legal dictionary DRW lists, for example, “he certifies his not dan as right” dated 1337, “whom solckes ... is certified and proven” after 1517, “his innocence ... has not been proven nor brought about”. 1559 was written “probation and certification” and Grimm's German dictionary also fixed the word in Latin probatio, firmatio .
In the 17th century it was already shown as an official document in the sense of a " proving document", such as "enter the certificate, including the witness name at court" in the Corpus Iuris Cambialis of Johann Gottlieb Siegel 1682, or "here there is no proper evidence, only a certificate is required ”from Hans Jacob Leu : Eydgenößisches Stadt- und Land-Recht from 1746.
The Brothers Grimm still lead to 1,854 Attestation as the primary form. The word form is also certificated or certified .
Examples
Certificates contain statements about the following facts:
- Certificate of incapacity for work about the illness of an employee ,
- Job references about activities and participation in school visits , further training events , exercise of professional activities and functions ,
- Awards based on diplomas , etc.,
- Qualifications based on a certificate of competence ,
- Authentication of signatures or the identical wording of a copy with an original using the example of an extract from the marriage register of the registry office ,
- Certificate of permanent residence ,
- Education level based on school and school leaving certificates ,
- Certificate of freedom of movement ,
- Permits based on aircraft licenses , sailing certificates or driving licenses ,
- Health status based on a health certificate ,
- Identity based on ID ,
- Knowledge and experience based on documents in general or certificates in particular,
- Fact that someone is still alive based on a life certificate ,
- Officer's license based on the certificate of appointment ,
- Certificate of rank for the entry of mortgages ,
- Severe disability based on an issued severely handicapped ID card ,
- Repayment of the real estate transfer tax liability based on a clearance certificate ,
- the certificate of conformity confirms that a motor vehicle, a system, a component or an independent technical unit at the time of its manufacture corresponds to a vehicle type approved according to the respective EC type approval directive ,
- Integrity based on a certificate of good conduct or a certificate of criminal record ,
- Shipping documents based on a certificate of origin ,
- Assignment of a term of activity; shown as training and job title (ATB) and training and job number (ATN) using the example of a course certificate for the Bundeswehr ,
- Approvals , private approvals based on consent , official approval based on notices or refusals such as the registration certificate for the admission of vehicles to road traffic .
Individual evidence
- ↑ certify . In: Prussian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 2 , issue 1 (edited by Eberhard von Künßberg ). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - publication date 1932 or 1933).
- ↑ Certificate . In: Prussian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 2 , issue 1 (edited by Eberhard von Künßberg ). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - publication date 1932 or 1933).
- ↑ Certificate. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 1 : A - Beer whey - (I). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1854 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ↑ Certificate . In: Prussian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 2 , issue 1 (edited by Eberhard von Künßberg ). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - publication date 1932 or 1933).
- ↑ Certificate. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 1 : A - Beer whey - (I). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1854 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ↑ according to DRW