Definition of Jurat

1. n. A person under oath; specifically, an officer of the nature of an alderman, in certain municipal corporations in England.

Definition of Jurat

1. Noun. (legal) The written statement by a notary public that he or she has administered and witnessed an oath or affirmation. ¹

2. Noun. (legal) The written statement of a person that he or she has declared an oath or affirmation. ¹

3. Noun. A municipal official in the Cinque Ports or in certain French towns. ¹

4. Noun. (Channel Islands) A life magistrate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jurat

1. a statement on an affidavit [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jurat

juped
jupes
juping
jupiter
jupon
jupons
juppon
juppons
jura
jura-trias
jural
jurally
jurant
jurants
jurat (current term)
juratory
jurats
jurbanite
jurbanites
jure
jure uxoris
jurel
jurels
juridic
juridical
juridically
juried
juries
jurisconsult

Literary usage of Jurat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Charles Petersdorff, Elisha Hammond (1829)
"It was urged that these words court, lint At (h'e bottom of the jurat the words, " By the Court," were subscribed; with the. appeared to be the hand-writing ..."

2. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by New York (State). Constitutional Convention (1916)
"The result was a number of acts were declared unconstitutional because the wrong jurat had been attached. At that time I threw out the majority jurat and ..."

3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"jurat ai part of. A jurat is that part of an affidavit where the officer certifies that it ... The jurat certificate is no part of the oath or affidavit, ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"Neither do the rules of the court require the place where the affidavit is sworn, hut only the names of ihc deponents, to be stated in the jurat : though in ..."

5. The Law of Collateral Attack on Judicial Proceedings by John McKee Van Fleet (1892)
"Verification, jurat, wanting.—When the order appointing an administrator in New York is attacked collaterally because of the want of a jurat to the ..."

6. The Lower Canada Jurist: Collection de Décisions Du Bas Canada by Strachan Bethune, John Sprott Archibald, William Hey, John Stuart Buchan (1864)
"It has, however, been said that the supposed defect in the jurat would make it ... But I do not see that the form of the jurat could be material in a ..."

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