 If that other jurisdiction's law is unclear or uncertain, a certified question can then be sent to that jurisdiction's courts to render an opinion on the question of law that arose in the court in which the actual litigation is pending.The courts to whom these questions of law are certified are typically appellate courts or state supreme courts.Historically, the procedure under which one court certifies a question to another, arises out of the distinction in the law of England between common law courts and equity courts.