0 someone who states in writing or by speaking as a witness in a court of law that something is true:
The court may order the deponent to attend for cross-examination.
Accepting that they are narratives whose veracity is questionable, she shows how deponents used words in order to position themselves in particular ways.
All testimony came from ' deponents ' adduced by the claimant.
A number of deponents saw his charitable countenance as a cynical attempt at self-preservation.
This may help explain why older male deponents are significantly more numerous than their female counterparts.
The composition of deponents is influenced on the one hand by the kind of litigation involved and on the other by contemporary prejudices.
The older deponents could extend this analysis back in time over several decades.
His discussion of the age distribution of deponents fails to make any observations regarding the nature of the evidence.
This prejudice against female deponents becomes much more marked through the course of the fifteenth century, such that numerous sixteenth-century matrimonial causes entirely lack female deponents.
