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.
Some deponent verbs, such as "sequ" (to follow), use the corresponding forms of other verbs to express a genuine passive meaning.
The court reporter keeps a copy of the documents provided to the deponent during the deposition for document identification questions.
In some cases it is because the deponents have not stated what their means of knowledge are.
All would depend upon the means of knowledge possessed by the deponents.
When deponents made a distinction, they seem to have thought of a ' pew ' as somewhat grander than the alternatives, being either more raised, more fixed or more enclosed.
Although more systematic analysis of the status of the deponents would have been desirable, it is unlikely that it would have undermined the thrust of what is a compelling argument.
In these materials on conversion, there is, of course, the possibility that deponents mentioned the lapses of their neighbours and their own courage in an attempt to deflect potential criticisms.
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.
