706. 56 Cc. C. A. 81; Hotchkiss v. Mosher, 48 N. Y. 482.—Certificate of holder of attached roperty. A certificate required by statute, n some states, to be given by a third person who is found in possession of property subject to an attachment in the sheriff's hands, setting forth the amount and character of such property and the nature of the defendant’s interest in it. Code Civil Proc. N. Y. § 650.—Certificate of incorporation. The instrument by which a private corporation is formed, under general statutes, executed by several persons as incorporators, and setting forth the name of the proposes corporation, the objects for which it s formed, and such other particulars as may be required or authorized by law, and filed in some designated public office as evidence of the corporate existence. ‘This is properly distinguished from a “charter,” which is a direct legislative grant of corporate existence and powers to named individuals; but practically the certificate of incorporation or “articles of incorporation” will contain the same enumeration of corporate powers and description. of objects and purposes as a charter.—Oertificate of indebtedness. <A form of obligation sometimes issued by public or private corporations having practically the same force and effect as a bond, though not usually secured on any specific prop-