ACKNOWLEDGMENT. The formal admission of some fact—e.g. acknowledgement of indebtedness. The " acknowledgement of an account" in commercial language is equivalent to the "account stated" of legal language, which is an admission by one party who is in account with another that there is a balance due from him. Such an admission in our law imports a promise to pay upon request. " Acknowledgement of married women " is the technical expression for the particular method which must be adopted whenever a married woman alienates real property which is not included in her separate estate. The deed conveying the property must be acknowledged by the woman on being exa mined by a judge or commissioner apart from her husband. As the sphere of the separate estate has been considerably enlarged by the Married Women's Property Acts, the opportunities for adopting this procedure are less frequent. F. 8.