e/Deposition (law)

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has gloss	eng: In law, a deposition is witnesss out of court testimony that is reduced to writing for later use in court or for discovery purposes Blacks Law Dictionary. In many countries, depositions are given in courtrooms. In the United States, they are usually taken elsewhere. In the United States, it is taken during an Examination Before Trial (EBT), a part of the discovery process in which litigants gather information in preparation for trial. Some jurisdictions recognize an affidavit as a form of deposition. The routine practice of obtaining the oral evidence of a witness before trial is foreign to common law jurisdictions such as England, Australia and New Zealand. Having the right to pose oral questions to opposing parties in litigation before trial developed in Canada and the United States in the nineteenth century.
lexicalization	eng: deposition
instance of	e/Legal case