Certified transfer. English term; when a stockholder has sold only a portion of the stock
represented by a certificate held by him the certificate and a transfer deed (assignment) are
lodged with the company which issues a fresh certificate to him for the amount unsold and
indorses the transfer to the effect that it is good for the remaining amount of stock ; then the
transfer is said to be certified or marked and the act of certifying or marking is called certification.