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  • It's not like we're testifying in court or filling out affidavits.†   (source)
  • Hyman compared Southam's study to Nazi research and got affidavits from the three doctors who'd resigned—they described Southam's research using words like illegal, immoral, and deplorable.†   (source)
  • The affidavit.†   (source)
  • In addition, I have a signed affidavit, from the minor's biological mother, Mrs. Pelzer, stating that the minor has set several fires in the basement of his former residence.†   (source)
  • Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete.†   (source)
  • Later, when questions arose as to the accuracy of the corporation papers, Holmes persuaded Henry Owens, the porter, to sign an affidavit swearing not only that he was secretary of the company but that he had met both Yates and Campbell and that Yates personally had handed him the stock certificates representing his share of the company.†   (source)
  • And just to put that other matter to rest, we'll need an affidavit, and you'll need to swear that it was you who bought the stuff in the woodshed and hid the stuff in the woodshed, and that you did once think I was framing you, but now you love me and I love you and everything is good."†   (source)
  • "I've got an affidavit here," the sheriff pressed on, pulling it free of his shirt pocket.†   (source)
  • If I give you an affidavit signed by Josie saying she doesn't remember anything, would you think twice about putting her on the stand?'†   (source)
  • Mr. Stoddard has enforced the rule that they have to have an affidavit with any child the mill employs that it is of legal age; and there's nobody going to swear that Deanie's even as much as twelve years old—nor Lissy—nor Pony—nor Milo.†   (source)
  • I told her that I put the stuff in your bag because I was mad at you, and I signed an affidavit that said you had no idea what was going on.†   (source)
  • Birth certificates, passports, affidavits, handwritten wills, detailed lists of people's possessions, there were bloodstained garments in Ziploc bags.†   (source)
  • The commandant bestirred himself and dispatched an aide to the Pima reservation in Arizona to obtain an identification affidavit from Ira.†   (source)
  • I told the officers in the station that I would return in a few hours and could be counted on to give an affidavit and look through mug shots.†   (source)
  • And I have a notarized affidavit from Sergeant Whitcomb in which he states that he knew the tomato was hot just from the way you tried to unload it on him.†   (source)
  • She told me that Shiva's application for an exit visa to come visit me was held up by the government; he was asked to provide affidavits to show he had no debts in Ethiopia, and moreover that I had no debts for which he might be responsible.†   (source)
  • I'll withdraw it as a deposition and offer it as an affidavit.†   (source)
  • "We require an affidavit releasing the company of responsibility," he said.†   (source)
  • He had excerpts from journal entries from elementary school, an affidavit to the effect that Salander's mother was incapable of taking care of her, and reports from various foster homes during her teens.†   (source)
  • I'll juggle the books, I'll fake the reports, I'll get phony witnesses, I'll forge affidavits, I'll commit perjury-so you don't have to worry, there won't be any trouble!†   (source)
  • Also, Mr. Ferry's affidavit further states that he was not able to communicate with the blacks beyond a greeting and a few cursory words.†   (source)
  • The document containing the charges against Socrates survived until at least the second century C.E. Diogenes Laertius reports the charges as recorded in the now-lost document: This indictment and affidavit is sworn by Meletus, the son of Meletus of Pitthos, against Socrates, the son of Sophroniscus of Alopece: Socrates is guilty of refusing to recognize the gods recognized by the state, and of introducing new divinities.†   (source)
  • Landers spent the afternoon drafting an affidavit for a search warrant and running down a judge.†   (source)
  • However, should such a trial ever take place, I reserve the right to confront my accusers, not their affidavits or depositions.†   (source)
  • Thus Hodge; who by character and constitution preferred and, for all his seeming insensitivity, immensely enjoyed the useful, immediate, palpable: ruefully smiling to himself at the neatness of phrase in a null and void affidavit, ruefully grinning at the firm, responsible solidity of the newly wired-up round of a chair (the veritable image of his soul: good wire, no loop without its function, a small detail in relation to the whole but necessary, however distasteful to people inclined…†   (source)
  • After reviewing a tremendous stack of affidavits and court records, Governor John Peter Altgeld of Illinois was con-vinced that an unfair trial and insufficient evidence had convicted the three defendants, not yet hanged, of murder in Chicago's famous Haymarket Square bombing of 1886.†   (source)
  • My aunt Debbie visited the courthouse and swore an affidavit that I was who I said I was.   (source)
    affidavit = written statement made under oath
  • This accusation was based largely on Lawton's contention that the young hustler friends of Hansford had been bribed by Williams and Seiler for their affidavits.   (source)
    affidavits = sworn statements
  • Mother remembered one date, Dad another, and Grandma-down-the-hill, who went to town and swore an affidavit that I was her granddaughter, gave a third date.   (source)
    affidavit = written statement made under oath
  • Eventually, Mother persuaded Grandma-down-the-hill to swear a new affidavit claiming I'd been born on the twenty-seventh, even though Grandma still believed it was the twenty-ninth, and the state of Idaho issued a Delayed Certificate of Birth.   (source)
  • He was mentioned in many POW affidavits and, in every one, was lauded for his kindness.†   (source)
  • What do we do if Björck signs an affidavit confirming his story?†   (source)
  • 'You have a signed affidavit from Josie stating that she doesn't remember anything-'†   (source)
  • There was an affidavit signed by the victim in which she urged the Parole Board to show mercy.†   (source)
  • Ferry's affidavit won't hold as much validity as the ship's papers, I'm afraid," Sedgwick said.†   (source)
  • The teenagers came into my office and signed sworn affidavits.†   (source)
  • Lila went with the police to fill out an affidavit.†   (source)
  • I've read your report and the affidavits and I understand we're proceeding as if Ancil is dead.†   (source)
  • He took my affidavit, quoting heavily from the detailed description I had written down.†   (source)
  • Lorenz handed me the voluntary affidavit to sign.†   (source)
  • They needed a formal affidavit and there were mug books to look at.†   (source)
  • An affidavit was taken from the victim and P.O.P. Clapper.†   (source)
  • At 9:00 A.M. Sergeant Lorenz arrived and the first order of business was to take my affidavit.†   (source)
  • "Are you ready for this?" the officer asked me at the end of the affidavit.†   (source)
  • He is the man who took my affidavit on May eighth.†   (source)
  • We went over the preliminary and some affidavits dating back to the night of the rape.†   (source)
  • "And for technicality's sake let's make this move, too: do you swear that the facts in this affidavit are true, so help you God— do you swear?†   (source)
  • He later filed a much-reviewed affidavit describing the entire horrific process: At 8:30 P.M. the first jolt of 1,900 volts of electricity passed through Mr. Evans's body.†   (source)
  • "You'll need to download, print, and fill out an affidavit regarding lost and stolen passport and bring it here.†   (source)
  • Hyman also got an affidavit from a fourth doctor explaining that the patients in the study wouldn't have been capable of giving informed consent even if Southam had asked: one had advanced Parkinson's disease and couldn't talk, others spoke only Yiddish, one had multiple sclerosis and "depressive psychosis."†   (source)
  • He urged King that when his sales effort took him to Chicago, he should to go a particular hotel and look for evidence in the register, and collect affidavits from clerks, proving that Minnie Williams had stayed there with Holmes long after she was supposed to have been murdered.†   (source)
  • We had submitted an extensive clemency petition to the governor with affidavits from family members and color photographs, but I didn't expect anything in response.†   (source)
  • While investigators combed Japan for Mutsuhiro, prosecutors were inundated with some 250 POW affidavits concerning his actions in camps.†   (source)
  • So unless circumstances of death or critical illness require you to travel to Paris this afternoon, and unless you can supply information establishing the critical emergency such as an affidavit with attending physician, clergy, or funeral director —†   (source)
  • I can probably find him in a couple of hours, and when I do, I'll get him to sign an affidavit as to what happened.†   (source)
  • I'll need you to write an affidavit, saying that you're Shay's spiritual advisor and that his religious beliefs include donating his heart.†   (source)
  • Then that really is very odd, Chaplain, because I have here another affidavit from Colonel Cathcart that states you once told him atheism was not against the law.†   (source)
  • She's in the logs, in the affidavits volunteered by men who knew Webb as a mental patient, who tried to help him.'†   (source)
  • And instead, I get a copy of an affidavit from the attorney general's office, saying that as Shay Bourne's spiritual advisor you believe in salvation through organ donation?†   (source)
  • There were multiple parts involved: the transcript of Shay Bourne attesting that he wanted to donate his heart to the sister of his victim; an affidavit from Claire Nealon's cardiac surgeon, stating that she did indeed need a heart to survive.†   (source)
  • All together, including the slaughter of a Canadian foreign service officer, they'd make interesting reading— as affidavits, carefully circulated, of course.'†   (source)
  • Landers used all the information he'd gathered to draft an affidavit for a search warrant for the barn.†   (source)
  • "Your Honor," Baldwin implored, "we have submitted the affidavit by a British seaman located by the Amistad Committee, a Mr. John Ferry, who is fluent in Congolese.†   (source)
  • But even after I recused myself, Josie'when we went to see Jordan, and you said you didn't remember anything'That's why I had you swear the affidavit.†   (source)
  • While her affidavit was being read, Jake noticed others from the Yawkey clan inching along the walls on the far left.†   (source)
  • The first page was the affidavit that Judge Cormier had brought him-the one that said Jordan wouldn't put Josie on the stand because she didn't know anything.†   (source)
  • Get me the affidavit.†   (source)
  • Do you remember telling the police, when you made your voluntary affidavit, you thought he was about one hundred and fifty pounds?†   (source)
  • Mastine was able to establish that, as I had said, it was an affidavit in which I retold the encounter with Madison chronologically.†   (source)
  • I scanned the contents of my affidavit.†   (source)
  • He was tired, fatigued, did not like the paperwork side of being a member of the Syracuse PD, and taking an affidavit in a rape case was a crappy way to start his day.†   (source)
  • Uebelhoer wants an affidavit.†   (source)
  • He took an affidavit.†   (source)
  • With some photostats and an affidavit in my brief case.†   (source)
  • During the days that followed letters were written, affidavits were drawn up and sworn to, conferences were held, but nothing came of it all.†   (source)
  • Then I would go up to my room, where the telephone was and the brief case with the photostat and the affidavit from Memphis.†   (source)
  • Everyone, however, received the affidavits, even people quite removed from the matter.†   (source)
  • You copied some affidavits in that cause for me lately.†   (source)
  • I have his affidavit here.†   (source)
  • On the basis of an affidavit prepared by one party on 9 April 19— summarizing the testimony given in Lemberg by Herr Zdzistaw Zygulski and Herr Tadeusz Kadyj concerning a suit brought by Herr Ladislaw Goduleczny against Herr Kasimir Japoll, and further on the basis of a decision rendered in that suit by the Court of Honor in Lemberg on 18 June 19—, both documents being in complete agreement in stating that Herr Kasimir Japoll 'cannot be regarded as a gentleman as a result of repeated…†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp read: "Affidavit, translated from the Polish original: On 27 March 19—, Herr Stanislaw von Zutawski approached Herr Dr. Anton Cieszynski and Herr Stefan von Rosinski with the request to call upon Herr Kasimir Japoll in his name and to demand satisfaction from same in the manner prescribed by the law of honor for 'gross insult and slander' inflicted by Herr Kasimir Japoll upon Herr von Zutawski's wife, Jadwiga von Zutawski, during a conversation with Herr Janusz Teofil…†   (source)
  • Further, Hans Castorp read: "Affidavit "of witnesses concerning events transpiring between Herr Stanislaw von Zutawski and Herr Michael Lodygowski, parties of the first part, "and Herr Kasimir Japoll and Herr Janusz Teofil Lenart, parties of the second part, in the bar of the Kurhaus in Davos, on 2 April 19—, between 7:30 and 7:45 p.m. "Inasmuch as Herr Stanislaw von Zutawski, having received and duly dated 28 March 19— and signed by his representatives, Herr Dr. Anton Cieszynski and…†   (source)
  • His revisions only superficially disturbed the pretty contrast of honor and shabbiness apparent in the affidavits of the opposing side, particularly since he did not have at his disposal the Zutawskian party's duplicating machinery, but could only circulate a few typed carbon copies of his rejoinder.†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp was not present at its various phases, but only learned about the complicated and dramatic course of events from documents, affidavits, and official minutes devoted to the affair, copies of which were circulated not only in the Berghof, not only in Davos, in the canton of Graubunden, in Switzerland, but also abroad, were sent as far as America, and were made available for study to persons who, one can be sure, would n of and could not pay one whit of attention to the…†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 45 The Affidavit.†   (source)
  • I have lived with the darling—or the darling has lived with me, and paid me for it; which she certainly should never have done, you may take your affidavit, if I could have afforded to keep either myself or her for nothing—since she was ten years old.†   (source)
  • It was not quite a new one for Rebecca—(indeed, if the truth must be told with respect to the Crisp affair, the tart-woman hinted to somebody, who took an affidavit of the fact to somebody else, that there was a great deal more than was made public regarding Mr. Crisp and Miss Sharp, and that his letter was in answer to another letter).†   (source)
  • Besides these, there were sundry immense manuscript Books of Evidence taken on affidavit, strongly bound, and tied together in massive sets, a set to each cause, as if every cause were a history in ten or twenty volumes.†   (source)
  • 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?†   (source)
  • An effect in the nature of an affidavit was gained from this speech by Mrs Chivery's peculiar power of construction.†   (source)
  • I mean no disparagement to the excellent voyager (I honour him for a veteran), but in so important a matter it was certainly an oversight not to have procured for every crystal a sworn affidavit taken before a Greenland Justice of the Peace.†   (source)
  • And Mr Dorrit's daughter that day began, in earnest, her competition with that woman not present; and began it so well that Mr Dorrit could all but have taken his affidavit, if required, that Mrs Sparkler had all her life been lying at full length in the lap of luxury, and had never heard of such a rough word in the English tongue as Marshalsea.†   (source)
  • Sir Leicester sits in my Lady's room—that room in which Mr. Tulkinghorn read the affidavit in Jarndyce and Jarndyce— particularly complacent.†   (source)
  • Will you do me the favour to mention (as it may interest her) that I have something to tell her on her return in reference to the person who copied the affidavit in the Chancery suit, which so powerfully stimulated her curiosity.†   (source)
  • Mr. Snagsby takes his book down from the safe, makes another bolt of the bit of bread and butter which seemed to have stopped short, eyes the affidavit aside, and brings his right forefinger travelling down a page of the book, "Jewby—Packer—Jarndyce."†   (source)
  • —affidavit?†   (source)
  • All three repetitions Mr. George pronounces in a mechanical manner, looking straight at Mr. Tulkinghorn; nor does he so much as glance at the affidavit in Jarndyce and Jarndyce, that has been given to him for his inspection (though he still holds it in his hand), but continues to look at the lawyer with an air of troubled meditation.†   (source)
  • "As a few fresh affidavits have been put upon the file," says Mr. Tulkinghorn, "and as they are short, and as I proceed upon the troublesome principle of begging leave to possess my clients with any new proceedings in a cause"—cautious man Mr. Tulkinghorn, taking no more responsibility than necessary—"and further, as I see you are going to Paris, I have brought them in my pocket."†   (source)
  • …wigs who said they were "in it," and none of them appeared to understand it much better than I. They chatted about it with the Lord Chancellor, and contradicted and explained among themselves, and some of them said it was this way, and some of them said it was that way, and some of them jocosely proposed to read huge volumes of affidavits, and there was more buzzing and laughing, and everybody concerned was in a state of idle entertainment, and nothing could be made of it by anybody.†   (source)
  • —ranged in a line, in a long matted well (but you might look in vain for truth at the bottom of it) between the registrar's red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters' reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them.†   (source)
  • They shall be my prosecutors, and I will sum up their words in an affidavit: 'Socrates is an evil-doer, and a curious person, who searches into things under the earth and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid doctrines to others.'†   (source)
  • Against these, too, I must try to make a defence:--Let their affidavit be read: it contains something of this kind: It says that Socrates is a doer of evil, who corrupts the youth; and who does not believe in the gods of the state, but has other new divinities of his own.†   (source)
  • But then you swear in the indictment that I teach and believe in divine or spiritual agencies (new or old, no matter for that); at any rate, I believe in spiritual agencies,--so you say and swear in the affidavit; and yet if I believe in divine beings, how can I help believing in spirits or demigods;--must I not?†   (source)
  • Menton, John Henry, solicitor, commissioner for oaths and affidavits.†   (source)
  • PADDY DIGNAM: (Earnestly) Once I was in the employ of Mr J. H. Menton, solicitor, commissioner for oaths and affidavits, of 27 Bachelor's Walk.†   (source)
  • This, said he, was true but, there being no affidavit made of my death he could not act as my executor.†   (source)
  • …into strips, like the tails of a cuttlefish, knocked off his hat twice, and so completely tired him out, that in vexation, anger, and rage, he took the sword by the hilt and flung it away with such force, that one of the peasants that were there, who was a notary, and who went for it, made an affidavit afterwards that he sent it nearly three-quarters of a league, which testimony will serve, and has served, to show and establish with all certainty that strength is overcome by skill.†   (source)
  • But he told me he could save me that trouble, and so caused me to enter my name with a public notary, as likewise my affidavit, with a procuration affixed to it; and this he ordered me to send in a letter to one of his acquaintance, a merchant in Brazil; and, indeed, nothing could be more faithfully and honourably observed; for, in seven months time, I had a very faithful account of all my effects, what sums of money were raised, what expended, and what remained for myself!†   (source)
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