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Definition of Affiants
1. affiant [n] - See also: affiant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affiants
Literary usage of Affiants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1896)
"Examining affiants.—And it is permissible in some states to examine the ...
In determining as to the credibility of affiants, the court may inquire into ..."
2. Report of the Commissioners for the Revision and Reform of the Law by California (1900)
"... as the case may be, or 10 stating that decedent left no husband or wife, and
that affiant 11 is or affiants are the children of said decedent, ..."
3. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York by John Romeyn Brodhead, Berthold Fernow, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, New York (State). Legislature (1881)
"Anthony, in whose presence the affiants took the oath administered by the Fiscal.
Date as above, und signed : LAMONTAGNE and ..."
4. Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon by Oregon Supreme Court (1903)
"... but, without the knowledge of the plaintiff or of the affiants, and without
authority to do so, he redeemed the property from the pretended sale; ..."
5. A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson, ( (2001)
"That affiants are informed and believe that Daniel C. Isham, James Meade, Mary A.
Taylor, and Charles Hensley have each of them filed in the land office of ..."
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