Constat

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Constat \Con"stat\, n. [L., it is evident.] (Law)
     A certificate showing what appears upon record touching a
     matter in question.
     [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:



  CONSTAT, English law. The name of a certificate, which the clerk of the pipe 
  and auditors of the exchequer make at the request of any person who intends 
  to plead or move in the court for the discharge of anything; and the effect 
  of it is, the certifying what constat (appears) upon record touching the 
  matter in question. 
       2. A constat is held to be superior to an ordinary certificate, because 
  it contains nothing but what is on record. An exemplification under the 
  great seal, of the enrollment of any letters-patent, is called a constat. Co.
  
  Litt. 225. Vide Exemplification; Inspeximus. 
       3. Whenever an officer gives a certificate that such a thing appears of 
  record, it is called a constat; because the officer does not say that the 
  fact is so, but it appears to be as he certifies. A certificate that it 
  appears to the officer that a judgment has been entered, &c., is 
  insufficient. 1 Hayw. 410.