Captain Butcher asked me," the affidavit continued, "if I knew where the vessel was going, in reply to which I told him I did not rightly understand about it.
The affidavitof William Passmore was to the effect that he was a seaman and had served on board the English ship Terrible during the Crimean war.
This affidavit with five others was laid before the customs officers, but the evidence was adjudged to be insufficient to warrant the detention of the vessel.
There is also an affidavit sworn by Captain Priest who was appointed by the Airline Pilots Association to sit as its representative on the committee.
Mr Woodford's own concern about all this is indicated in the lengthy affidavit which he prepared for the purpose of exonerating Captain Gemmell.
The letter, which is amplified in a affidavit put before this Court, is set out later in this judgment.
The affidavit indicates that the police officer arrived to take charge of the police store only on the evening of 6th December and by then Captain Gemmell had been back in New Zealand for two days.
The extent of the evidence which could have been given by Mr Woodford if he had been called as a witness is indicated by his affidavit now put before this Court.
I am not likely to forget the work of taking an affidavit from one Joe Ripley.
This was all very romantic and entertaining, but that affidavit had to be obtained, and Captain John Smith, somehow, had to be prevented from escaping to his Pocahontas.
Read the affidavit and tell me whether you know that to be verbally and precisely the same?
I have taken it that Lord Cochrane delivered several papers, one purporting to be an affidavit which this witness inserted in the newspapers.
I was of Counsel with Mr. Serjeant Best on the trial; I am not furnished with any affidavit on the part of Mr. Butt.
Then, gentlemen, upon my Lord Cochrane's affidavit it stands, and I say that at present there is not evidence enough to meet it.
Now it is material to observe, this affidavit first introduced the name of De Berenger in any public document; whether it was known privately at any earlier period we are not informed, the date of it is the 11th of March.
Here then this part of the affidavit is most unquestionably confirmed.
After a vote to limit the act to four years, the upper House made amendments requiring some proofs of the debt of service claimed other than the affidavit of the claimant, and then passed the act on March 12.
Ownership was determined by the simple affidavit of the person claiming the slave; and when determined it was shielded by the certificate of the commissioner from "all molestation .
The oral testimony of the claimant, or an affidavit from a magistrate in the state from which he came, must certify that the fugitive owed service as claimed.
Under the Fugitive Slave Act some of these settlers were seized upon the affidavit of their former owners, and with the sanction of the federal authority were carried back into slavery.
That's only a legal phrase with which every affidavit begins.
But he was just as much of a crank then as he is now, so he took Willard's affidavit before the Grievance Committee of the Bar Association.
Gordon tore from his pocket the "affidavit of merits," with the proofs of its falsity, and slapped them down upon the desk.
You will have no objection to signing this affidavit of identification--will you, Mr. Stein?
But you remember making this affidavit at the time--do you not?
Their trouble began about an "affidavit of merits.
Paris, 388; declines to make anaffidavit for Lord Brougham, ii.
Either that or anything that she signed which purports to be her statement or affidavit or other recording.
I don't think he asked for such an affidavit in those terms.
No; there is nothing that I desire to add to what appears in this letter and my affidavit which accompanied it to the Commission.
Mr. McCone, is that the affidavit you are going to supply the Commission in connection with our request for it?
We can supply his name and I would supply you with copies of his affidavit which I think you have.
I should think the Commission would be well aware of that since I wrote to the Commission on the very day that I was retained and sent, as I recall, an affidavit from my client, detailing the purpose, the purpose of my being retained.
The applicant shall, upon request by the hearing officer, confirm his oral statements in an affidavit for the record.
Yes; this is the substance of the affidavit which I will supply to you.
Why didn't you provide him with the affidavit at that time?
And now at last it was small comfort to Dorinda to know that the affidavit would not, in the justice's opinion, have been competent testimony.
True, he had sworn to nothing which he did not believe, either in the affidavit for the warrant or at the committing trial; but the widely chartered credulity of an angry man!
Surely Rick Tyler's defection could not matter, he argued, since the affidavit would have been worthless.
Becker, of the United States Geological Survey, who for some years has had charge of investigations relating to the gold-bearing gravels of the Pacific coast, presented the affidavit of Mr. J.
When he learned the particulars about the taking of the affidavit at night, he at once jumped to the conclusion that he had been made the victim of a conspiracy.
The affidavit in the warrant did not even go so far as this, in any positive charge.
The only positive averment in the affidavit was unimportant, and, if important, was untrue.
When a homestead entry is contested and application is made for cancellation, the party so applying must file anaffidavit setting forth the facts on which his allegations are grounded, describing the tract and giving the name of the settler.
In entries of "Adjoining Farms," the settler must describe in his affidavit the tract he owns and lives upon, as his original farm.
The proof is made by theaffidavit of the party and the testimony of two credible witnesses.
There was no trial by jury, and the only requisite for conviction was an affidavit that he had escaped.
Those who could not be there in so short a time must telegraph a transcript of their records, in affidavit form.
This was verified by the affidavit of a checker, then a second and third checker, before the doors were sealed by agents of the Government, packing-house and railroad agents.
I was astonished to find, upon examination of the papers, that the explosive had been shipped to the quarries at Quarrytown, together with an affidavit by the train conductor that he had delivered ten cases on the platform there.
Eversole, after weighing carefully the statement, seemed to have entertained some doubt of its truth, and requested a sworn affidavit containing the statements made.
The affidavitis almost conclusive evidence as to the fact that the More children were all of the English colonists' party, though apprenticed to Leyden families, and belonged to the London passenger list of the Pilgrim ship.
An affidavit of Richard More, perhaps the eldest of these children, indentured to Elder Brewster, dated in 1684.
One writer has made the inexcusable error of stating that "the younger son, Francis, was born after the arrival at New Plymouth," but his own affidavit shows him to have been born in 1606.
In the first place, each elector, at the time of registering, declares his party allegiance, and this is entered upon his original affidavit of registration.
Then came discussion of the clause quoted in the previous chapter, which requires of each primary candidate that he make affidavit that he supported his party ticket at the previous election, and proposes to support it at the coming election.
At the same time, he is given a party voting number, which is written or printed upon his affidavit of registration.
You are a jury in this case from King County because the defendant and the other defendants filed an affidavit to the effect that they didn't expect that a jury selected in Snohomish County would give the defendant a fair trial.
She had taken the oath, given her name and calling, and was now listening to the reading of her affidavit by Mr. Marshall.
Certainly, m' Lord; I am instructed that the person who has executed the affidavit is merely an accomplice of the prisoner at the bar, and their relationship is such as to warrant the gravest doubts of its genuine nature.
I am in your Lordship's hands; if your Lordship rules that I cannot put in this affidavit without, I have no alternative.
He reviewed the evidence very shortly, and pointed out to the jury that it was for them to consider these statements and to say if they believed the affidavit put up for the defence.
That is why I made the affidavit now before the Court.
This discrepancy, Mr. Goodenough states, took place entirely through mistake, and he did not know that Mr. Hoyte was thus characterized in his affidavit till he saw it in print.
Footnote: See theaffidavit of Mr. Hilliker, in Appendix.
One evening a lawyer, who had been employed for the purpose, accompanied me to a French justice with an affidavit ready prepared in English, for his signature, and informed him that he wished him to administer to me the oath.
It proved, however, that we had gained nothing by this step, for the lawyer afterward informed us, that the laws required the affidavit of a nun or minor to be taken before a superior magistrate.
Robertson in his affidavit says, that he was willing "to take the necessary steps for a full investigation, if a direct charge were made against any particular individual of a criminal nature.
Robinson, and all the rest are signed by him as Justice of the Peace; and a Justice, too, who had previously refused to take the affidavit of Maria Monk.
Footnote: See theaffidavit of William Miller, in the Appendix.
Mrs. Tarbert is the woman spoken of several times in the "Sequel," without being named; as I did not know how to spell her name till her affidavit came out.
He obtained his contradictory information most probably from her mother, or from the Priest Kelly, and then embodied it in his affidavit to regain that favour and popularity with the Montreal Papists which he has so long lost.
It is, however, necessary to file an affidavitsetting out the value of the estate of the deceased upon applying for a grant of probate or letters of administration.
Sidenote: Illustrations} The illustrations of a book may be separately registered, and if by lithographic or photo-engraving process must also have affidavit of manufacture in this country.
The provision extends to periodicals, though these are not subjected to the affidavit clause, and periodicals containing authorized copyrighted material are not prohibited from importation.
Sidenote: Affidavit requirement} To the manufacturing provision of the previous law has been added a new affidavit requirement (sec.
Thus failure to deposit, and, in the case of books, false affidavit as to American manufacture, are the two lapses of formalities which work forfeiture of copyright.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "affidavit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
