credentials

Noun

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credentials - a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts Synonyms: certificate, credential, certification

CREDENTIALS, international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the minister, he can be received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. They are, as it were, his letter of attorney, his mandate patent, mandatum manifestum. Vattel, liv. 4, c. 6, Sec. 76.

bill of health, birth certificate, certificate, certificate of incorporation, certification, commission, credential, diploma, document, military commission, papers, probate, probate will, registration, sheepskin, teacher's certificate, teaching certificate, written document