Perpetuating Testimony
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The act by which testimony is reduced to writing as prescribed by law, so that the same shall be read in evidence in some suit or legal proceedings to be thereafter instituted. The origin of this practice may be traced to the canon law (chapter 5, X ut lite non eontestata, etc.) Bockmer, note 4; 8 Toullier.
Dr. Civ. note 22.
Statutes exist in most of the states for this purpose. Equity also furnishes means, to a limited extent, for the same purpose.