Deponere

Lat. [from <?e, down, and pcnere, to put or lay.] In old practice. To put or lay down; to depose. See Depose. To state under oath. Bract fol.

293.

Applied by Bracton to the delivery of the verdict of a jury. Qui veritatem rei deponant ex integro; who shall depose the truth of the matter anew. Id. ibid. The word occurs very frequently in this sense in the canon law.

Durand.

Spec. Juris, lib.

1, tit.

De teste

To make oath; to swear. In the case of Knight V. Rushwood, the defendant assumed to the plaintiff that if he and two witnesses would deponere before the Mayor of London that a certain obligation was read as an obligation of 200/. he would pay it. Whereupon the plaintiff, with two others, came before the Mayor of London, and there deposed upon a book accordingly, and hereupon brought the action. It was objected on argument, that deponere was a word uncertain, for deponere was, to lay down; but it was held certain enough, for to depose or lay down are in truth synonyv Mt et tantamount.

Cro. Eliz. 469, 470. See 1 Stra. 667, 661, arg.

In the civil law. To lay down or deposit with another; to entrust a thing to another to keep. Calvin's Lex. Jurid.

See Depositum.