Usually done in a lawyer's office

Usage examples of deposition.

Examination of the airways revealed no soot deposition, and blood carboxyhemoglobin saturation was minimal.

Skyfac station, a high-orbit facility that produces foamsteel and vapor deposition materials for use in the cislunar community.

The secretary perfectly understood the trick, and, upon the receipt of five hundred cruzados, he accepted the deposition of Olivarez, sworn to by him, as sufficient evidence, and you were consigned to the mines upon this deposition by a warrant from the judge.

The second is: Has the period been anything like enough for the deposition of the strata which must have been deposited if all organic forms have been evolved by minute steps, according to the Darwinian theory?

Matt Gregoire and I will interrogate Schneider en route to Earth and transmit his deposition to you as soon as we can.

That assembly, convoked by the consul, unanimously acknowledged Severus as lawful emperor, decreed divine honors to Pertinax, and pronounced a sentence of deposition and death against his unfortunate successor.

As time went on, however, a court date was set, and I was called in for a deposition, as were some former employees.

An unconformity is a lack of continuity in deposition between strata in contact with each other, corresponding to a period of nondeposition, weathering, or, as in this case, erosion.

Early and Middle Jurassic dinosaurs were widespread, but their remains generally occur as isolated skeletons rather than in concentrations in deposits where analysis of habitat and rock deposition can be combined for paleoecologic interpretations.

The following depositions on the massacres at Nomeny are made by prisoners, one a Bavarian officer in the Reserve, the other a private in the same regiment.

On the vast lapse of time, as inferred from the rate of deposition and of denudation -- On the poorness of our palaeontological collections -- On the intermittence of geological formations -- On the absence of intermediate varieties in any one formation -- On the sudden appearance of groups of species -- On their sudden appearance in the lowest known fossiliferous strata.

In other cases we have the plainest evidence in great fossilised trees, still standing upright as they grew, of many long intervals of time and changes of level during the process of deposition, which would never even have been suspected, had not the trees chanced to have been preserved: thus, Messrs.

The usual procedure in an Army investigation, he recalled, was to suggest to the suspect that there were already battalions of witnesses against him, drawers full of signed depositions, and lockers overflowing with incriminating evidence.

I re-entered the inn without meeting anyone, but when I had had my dinner and was just going to see my counsel an officer served me with a summons, which was interpreted to me by my landlord, which ordered me to appear forthwith before the notary appointed to take my deposition.

I went to him with the officer of the court, and spent two hours with the notary, who wrote down my deposition in German while I gave it in Latin.