All 3 Uses

depose
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
(Auto-generated)

But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a bonnet, and went out.
Chpt 10

deposes = states in answer to official questioning
Both these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone.†
Chpt 4 *
Catherine Cusack, maid to the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, where she found matters as described by the last witness.†
Chpt 7

Definitions:

(1) (depose as in: plot to depose the Queen)
remove from office
(2) (depose as in: depose the witness)
question another under oath, or state under oath, or a record of a legal statement
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
More rarely, depose can reference the respondent's statements, or deposed can reference the respondent.