Affidavit
[,æfɪ'deɪvɪt] or [,æfə'devɪt]
Definition
(noun.) written declaration made under oath; a written statement sworn to be true before someone legally authorized to administer an oath.
Checker: Rowena--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A sworn statement in writing; a declaration in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized magistrate.
Typist: Mason
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Testimony (in writing, signed and sworn to before a magistrate, but given without cross-examination), evidence, DEPOSITION.
Checked by Curtis
Definition
n. a written declaration on oath.
Typist: Wanda
Examples
- Sir Leicester sits in my Lady's room--that room in which Mr. Tulkinghorn read the affidavit in Jarndyce and Jarndyce--particularly complacent. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Why then should you expect me to pen this kind of affidavit, which has no object but to keep up a foolish partiality and secure a foolish bequest? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You copied some affidavits in that cause for me lately. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Typist: Ora