deponent
noun[C]
LAWuk/dɪˈpəʊnənt/ussomeone whostatesin writing or byspeakingas awitnessin acourtoflawthat something istrue:
Thecourtmayorderthe deponent toattendforcross-examination.
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Accepting that they are narratives whose veracity is questionable, she shows how deponents used words in order to position themselves in particular ways.
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All testimony came from ' deponents ' adduced by the claimant.
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A number of deponents saw his charitable countenance as a cynical attempt at self-preservation.
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This may help explain why older male deponents are significantly more numerous than their female counterparts.
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The composition of deponents is influenced on the one hand by the kind of litigation involved and on the other by contemporary prejudices.
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The older deponents could extend this analysis back in time over several decades.
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His discussion of the age distribution of deponents fails to make any observations regarding the nature of the evidence.
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This prejudice against female deponents becomes much more marked through the course of the fifteenth century, such that numerous sixteenth-century matrimonial causes entirely lack female deponents.
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In these materials on conversion, there is, of course, the possibility that deponents mentioned the lapses of their neighbours and their own courage in an attempt to deflect potential criticisms.
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Although more systematic analysis of the status of the deponents would have been desirable, it is unlikely that it would have undermined the thrust of what is a compelling argument.
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When deponents made a distinction, they seem to have thought of a ' pew ' as somewhat grander than the alternatives, being either more raised, more fixed or more enclosed.
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All would depend upon the means of knowledge possessed by the deponents.
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In some cases it is because the deponents have not stated what their means of knowledge are.
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The court reporter keeps a copy of the documents provided to thedeponentduring the deposition for document identification questions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Somedeponentverbs, such as "sequ" (to follow), use the corresponding forms of other verbs to express a genuine passive meaning.
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