Affidavit meaning

Noun: affidavit

Pronunciation: (a-fi’dey-vit)

Affidavit meaning: Written declaration made under oath. A written statement sworn to be true before someone legally authorized to administer an oath.

Quotations: Robert Litan – It’s against the Justice Department’s interest to have Judge Jackson make an immediate remedy decision because that increases the odds that he would be reversed on appeal. There is a fair chance that experts who have already submitted affidavits in the case will be called as witnesses and there will be a mini-trial that revolves around remedies.

Mildred Cho – If there is a linking code, there has to be some kind of written confirmation or affidavit that the researcher will not be given access to the information.

Bill Bunch – Every single one of the petition signers signed an affidavit swearing that they watched the person sign their own personal signature on there. If there were any irregularities, we want them found out, we want that person prosecuted, but we know that also we had a whole bunch of extra signatures.

Mukul Sinha – The commission saw that no new facts were coming out of today’s submission. So it took a stand that this be rejected. The government has been asked to file a detailed affidavit again on its stand over the matter.

David Gibson – A number of the officers present in the meeting realized that the affidavits that they had prepared independently were not consistent and they took the affidavits back, changed them to make them consistent and then submitted the altered affidavits as original affidavits. At that point it became clear that there was something very seriously a miss.

Artur Davis – Our displaced citizens should have the same rights as our soldiers and for that matter, our college students, to participate in their states elections while they are temporarily away from home. This bill would allow evacuees to assert by affidavit that they intend to return to Louisiana or Mississippi and vote in the 2006 and 2008 federal elections by absentee ballot.

Sample sentences:

1. There is so much more than second thoughts in that affidavit.
2. We need extra time to prepare the affidavit, and to prepare the appeal against the corruption case.
3. It will be our case that Mr John had a far greater involvement with this company than he admits in his affidavit, and has for many, many years.
4. The affidavit is sealed from everyone but the Wall Street Journal , the court and the government. We would just like to see what the Journal has seen.
5. They took that affidavit and went to the homes of some of the suspects and found some of the games I suggested they would find.
6. He didn’t discuss the content of my affidavit with me at all, ever.
7. There is so much more to the circumstances of the case that aren’t mentioned in the affidavit.
8. Based on the evidence that we had the matters that are set out in the complaint and affidavit, it was believed that there is probable cause for an arrest and bringing of certain charges.
9. I heard about that policeman’s affidavit this morning, and that will be one of my purposes to fly to Australia.
10. We look in vain for any assertion that narcotics dealers often hide drugs on family members and young children. Perhaps they do; but the judge reviewing this affidavit would not know it.