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affidavit
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN evidence ▪ The impression the debtor seeks to give in his affidavit evidence is that he is not well placed financially. ▪ Counsel further contended that on the affidavit evidence the debtor has an arguable claim that ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Affidavit \Af`fi*da"vit\, n. [LL. affidavit he has made oath, perfect tense of affidare. See Affiance , Affy .] (Law) A sworn statement in writing; a declaration in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized magistrate. --Bouvier. --Burrill. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. written declaration made under oath; a written statement sworn to be true before someone legally authorized to administer an oath
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Medieval Latin affidavit , literally "he has stated on oath," third person singular perfective of affidare "to trust," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad- ) + fidare "to trust," from fidus "faithful," from the same root as fides "faith" (see faith ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) A signed document wherein an affiant makes a sworn statement.
Usage examples of affidavit.
Otto von Meissner, chief of the Presidential Chancellery, and Goering, who had accompanied Hitler, were the only witnesses to the conversation, and though Meissner is not a completely dependable source, his affidavit at Nuremberg is the only firsthand testimony in existence of what followed.
In his Nuremberg affidavit, Seyss declared that he refused to send such a wire since there were no disorders.
He recalled in his affidavit some of these reports of conditions in eight camps inhabited by Russian and Polish workers : overcrowding that bred disease, lack of enough food to keep a man alive, lack of water, lack of toilets.
The objective was disclosed in an affidavit by Otto Ohlendorf, one of the S.
Amen and in his affidavit, Ohlendorf described how a typical killing took place.
It was a sworn affidavit by Hermann Graebe, the manager and engineer of a branch office in the Ukraine of a German construction firm.
He was disembarked at Reykjavik, Iceland, under pledge of the strictest secrecy, later taken to a POW camp in Canada, and after the war signed an affidavit giving the facts.
Moreover, the Warburgs had ample opportunity to release such an affidavit with wide publicity without utilizing neo-Nazi channels.
James Warburg affidavit is not aimed at the original boo but rather at an anti-Semitic book circulated over a decade later.
As I state in my affidavit, he became very agitated, grabbed me by the throat, threw me to the ground, kicked me several times.
I did not give any thought to it or keep it in mind because of my having, a few months later, that affidavit of the said Cardinal Bellarmino of the 26th of May which I have presented, in which is told the order to me not to hold or defend the said opinion.
I have not kept in my memory, I think because they are not set forth in the said affidavit on which I relied, and which I have kept as a reminder.
Cardinal Bellarmino for the affidavit that he attached herewith as evidence.
Madagascar is the affidavit of Israel Phippany and Peter Freeland, at Portsmouth, March 31, 1705, and these mariners may have perjured themselves to save the lives of English seamen condemned by the Scots.
Scot, I have reason for believing in the English affidavit at Portsmouth.