Definition of Depositions

1. Noun. (plural of deposition) ¹

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Definition of Depositions

1. deposition [n] - See also: deposition

Lexicographical Neighbors of Depositions

deposit
deposit account
deposit box
deposit contract
deposit interest retention tax
depositaries
depositary
depositary receipt
deposite
deposited
depositee
depositees
depositing
deposition
depositional
depositions
depositor
depositories
depositors
depository
depository financial institution
depository library
deposits
depositum
depositums
depositure
depositures
depot
depot injection
depot reaction

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 ..."

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