In English law, the word jurat (juratum) is applied to that part of an affidavit which contains the names of the parties swearing the affidavit and the person before whom it was sworn, the date, place and other necessary particulars.
Possibly it was a libel against the departed jurat that he and Mattingley had had dealings unrecognised by customs law, crystallising at last into this legacy to the famous pirate-smuggler.
It had belonged to a jurat of repute, who parted with it to Mattingley not long before he died.
There he would recall the stories told him of the prowess of his ancestor, William de Beauvoir, that man of great courage, a Jurat of the royal court.
Nicholas at the tomb of one of them who was Jurat of the town.
In 1437 its eight wards were made into twelve, and a jurat sat over each, with power to appoint every year his own constable and deputy constable.
In 1798, he was elected jurat of the Royal Court; and the greater part, if not the whole, of the public documents of that body, were from that period written by him.
Every jurat fixed his eye upon Guida as though she had come to claim his life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jurat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: assessor; chancellor; master; ordinary; recorder
