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Definition of Depositions
1. deposition [n] - See also: deposition
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depositions
Literary usage of Depositions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"As if the devisor bring his bill and take depositions, and his devisee bring a
bill of revivor; and his cause is dismissed, because the devisee claiming as ..."
2. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves (1877)
"And there can be uo doubt that this change in the terms of the new Act was
introduced in order that the depositions should be taken more fully and ..."
3. Commentaries on the Law of Evidence in Civil Cases by Burr W. Jones, Louis Horwitz (1914)
"depositions. J 634. Definitions—depositions not Admissible at Common Law. 5 635.
depositions Received in Chancery Practice—To Perpetuate Testimony—De Dene ..."
4. A Manual for Courts-martial, Courts of Inquiry, and of Other Procedure Under by United States War Dept (1916)
"depositions admissible.—depositions taken under the provision of AW 25 and 26
... depositions for defense in capital cases.—Deposition testimony may be ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"EQUITY (§ 355*) — depositions — TIME or TAKING. Except by consent of parties,
depositions for use as the basis of a final decre« cannot be taken before the ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Samuel March Phillipps (1822)
"(1) This examination, taken by the directions of the statute in a judicial
proceeding, will be evidence like depositions under the statute of Philip and ..."
7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"Perkins, where it was not declared that, if such depositions taken in a cause
which was res inter alias acta, were ordered to be read on a ..."