An affidavit is a type of verified statement or showing, or in other words, it contains a verification, meaning it is under oath or penalty of perjury, and this serves as evidence to its veracity and is required for court proceedings.

If an affidavit is notarized or authenticated, it will also include a caption with a venue and title in reference to judicial proceedings.

In American jurisprudence, under the rules for hearsay, admission of an unsupported affidavit as evidence is unusual ( especially if the affiant is not available for cross-examination ) with regard to material facts which may be dispositive of the matter at bar.

If the affiant is a party in the case, the affiant's opponent may be successful in having the affidavit admitted as evidence, as statements by a party-opponent are admissible through an exception to the hearsay rule.

Equally, the acceptance that a lawyer is an officer of the court ( for swearing the affidavit ) is not a given.

The person making the affidavit is known as the deponent but does not sign the affidavit.

The affidavit concludes in the standard format " sworn ( declared ) before me, of commissioner for oaths / solicitor, a commissioner for oaths ( solicitor ), on the at in the county / city of, and I know the deponent ( declarant )", and it is signed and stamped by the commissioner for oaths.

In other jurisdictions the action is commenced by service of legal process by delivery of these documents on the defendant by a process server ; they are only filed with the court subsequently with an affidavit from the process server that they had been given to the defendant ( s ) according to the rules of civil procedure.

" It is not clear from the father's affidavit if the girl had identified Beiderbecke.

In other countries, testimony is usually preserved for future use by way of live testimony in the courtroom, or by way of written affidavit.

Included in the NDEA — Title X, Section 1001 ( f )-- is a mandate that all beneficiaries of the act complete an affidavit disclaiming belief in the overthrow of the U. S. government.

If the divorce is started with a Summons with Notice then the grounds will either have to be proven by plaintiff's affidavit or by testimony at an inquest if the divorce is uncontested or to be granted by default.

In these cases the defendant neither admits nor denies the plaintiff's allegations, it is up to the plaintiff to prove the allegations by testimony or affidavit in such a case.

In most cases, during probate, at least one witness is called upon to testify or sign a " proof of witness " affidavit.

Since the discovery of Guido Latré in 1997, it is believed that Emanuel van Meteren's affidavit of 1609 refers to the printing of the Coverdale Bible in 1535, when his father employed Myles Coverdale as translator.

However, aside from an affidavit from one of his friends, Dieter Stahl, there is no evidence to substantiate this.

Most of these allegations are completely unfounded, but the suggestion that he visited Auschwitz in the company of Adolf Eichmann, though denied by Eichmann himself at his trial, is based on an affidavit by Rudolf Kastner, drawing on testimony from Dieter Wisliceny.

Government of India, in an affidavit in the Supreme Court of India, said that there is no historical proof of the bridge being built by Rama.

Some jurisdictions recognize an affidavit as a form of deposition, sometimes called a " deposition upon written questions.

A written statement, if the author swears the statement is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, is called an affidavit.

* 6 March – Novelist Arundhati Roy, a high-profile campaigner against the Narmada river dams project, is sentenced by the Supreme Court to one day in prison for contempt of court because of an affidavit she had written criticising the court.

In contrast, in most U. S. states, the memorandum is written impersonally or as if the client were speaking directly to the court, and the attorney reserves declarations of his own personal knowledge to a separate declaration or affidavit ( which are then cited to in the memorandum ).

Simpson later told The Birmingham News that her affidavit's wording could be interpreted in two ways, and stated that she had written her affidavit herself, whereas in her Congressional testimony she had admitted to having help from a Siegelman supporter.

" However, if the will is not self-proved, then " a will wholly in the handwriting of the testator may be proved by two witnesses to his handwriting, which evidence may be by sworn testimony or affidavit taken in open court, or, if such witnesses are non-residents of the county or are residents who are unable to attend court, by deposition, either written or oral, taken in the same manner and under the same rules as depositions taken in other civil actions.

Evidence governs the use of testimony ( e. g., oral or written statements, such as an affidavit ), exhibits ( e. g., physical objects ), documentary material, or demonstrative evidence, which are admissible ( i. e., allowed to be considered by the trier of fact, such as jury ) in a judicial or administrative proceeding ( e. g., a court of law ).

In such a case, a court will accept an affidavit from the filing attorney in support of the motion, as certain assumptions are made, to wit: The affidavit in place of sworn testimony promotes judicial economy.

There are two exceptions: 1 ) Any affidavit sworn in the course of the collaboration and vouching documentation attaching to same and 2 ) any interim agreement made and signed off in the course of the collaboration or correspondence relating thereto.

The new law also stripped African Americans of the right to request a jury trial or to testify on their own behalf, even if they were legally free, whenever a single claimant presented a sworn affidavit of ownership.

All Census employees must sign a sworn affidavit of non-disclosure prior to employment.

" Referee Octavio Meyran, in a sworn affidavit, claims that King threatened to have the WBC withhold payment of Meyran's hotel bill if Meyran did not support King's protest.

In the United States, an arrest warrant must be supported by a signed and sworn affidavit showing probable cause that a specific crime ( s ) has been committed by the individual ( s ) named in the warrant.

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In September Oates and Tonge had sworn an affidavit in front of Godfrey detailing their accusations.

In 1999, former RUC officer John Weir made a sworn affidavit in which he admitted colluding with loyalist paramilitaries and implicated many other police officers and soldiers of the same.

Much of what is known about the Gleiwitz incident comes from the sworn affidavit of Alfred Naujocks at the Nuremberg Trials.

In 1886, the patent examiner ( Zenas Fisk Wilber ) stated in a sworn affidavit that he was an alcoholic and deeply in debt to Bell's lawyer Marcellus Bailey with whom Wilber had served in the Civil War.

A police officer's sworn affidavit alleged that " redness around her neck and swelling near her eye consistent with her statement.

The Statue was commissioned by the Costa Rican Government in 1891, under sworn statement or affidavit of several witness of his deed in Rivas, a perpetual memorial archive has been preserved.

This was witnessed by a large number of persons and sworn to on affidavit.

In 1937, he voluntarily assisted US lawyers investigating the Black Tom explosion by providing a sworn affidavit from his home in Dublin.

This latest appeal is based on the 2005 sworn affidavit of Jimmy Britt, a decorated retired United States Marshal who worked as such during the trial.

On 14 April 2009, he signed a sworn affidavit to the courts, denying making such allegations.

In a sworn affidavit about the incident, Thurlow testified, " I never heard a shot.

An affidavit sworn by Abu Rahma on October 3, 2000, says the Israeli soldiers shot the boy in cold blood: " I can assert that shooting at the child Mohammed and his father Jamal came from the above-mentioned Israeli military outpost, as it was the only place from which shooting at the child and his father was possible.

* A maximum 6 months of coercive arrest ( Erzwingungshaft ) is still available for a sworn affidavit for insurance of a debtor under § 901 ZPO.

Based on an affidavit sworn by Christopher Headdon, on 28 June 1999 “ from the 1980s onwards, Equitable was aware of the GAR risk.

Barry received orders on 28 October from his brigade commander, Richard McKee, " to make a sworn affidavit concerning his torture in the North Dublin Union.