The chief value of obtaining a deposition, as with any discovery proceeding, is to give all litigant parties in a contested case a fair preview of the evidence.

The chief value of the Visigothic code consists in the fact that it is the only collection of Roman Law in which the five first books of the Theodosian code and five books of the Sententiae Receptae of Julius Paulus have been preserved, and until the discovery of a manuscript in the chapter library in Verona, which contained the greater part of the Institutes of Gaius, it was the only work in which any portion of the institutional writings of that great jurist had come down to us.

Rudenko's most striking discovery was the body of a tattooed Pazyryk chief: a thick-set, powerfully built man who had died when he was about 50.

Exhumations led to the discovery not only of the charred bodies of the victims in two mass graves, but also of the bust of Lenin ( previously assumed to be buried at a Jewish cemetery ) as well as bullets that according to a 2000 statement by Leon Kieres, the chief of the IPN, could have been fired from 1941 Walther P38 type pistols.

The chief criteria for choosing the field of honour were isolation, to avoid discovery and interruption by the authorities ; and jurisdictional ambiguity, to avoid legal consequences.

A new critical edition has been in preparation since 1990 by Djalal Khaleghi-Motlagh, using as its chief text the relatively recent discovery of the Florence manuscript in 1977, dated 1217, which makes it one of the earliest surviving ones, predating the Moghul invasion and the following destruction of important libraries and manuscript collections.

Maracay was the name of a Cacique ( Indian chief ) of the indigenous people who lived in the area before the Spanish ' discovery ' of America.

In 1721, on the discovery of the plot for the capture of the royal family and the proclamation of King James, Atterbury was arrested with the other chief malcontents, and in 1722 committed to the Tower of London, where he remained in close confinement during some months.

His chief discovery was a 10th century manuscript of the Iliad, the famous codex Venetus A, with ancient scholia and marginal notes, indicating supposititious, corrupt or transposed verses.

In his journal he wrote a haunting account of the discovery, then vented his bitter discontent with the conflict: " The government is in the wrong, and this is the chief cause of the persevering opposition of the Indians, who have nobly defended their country against our attempt to enforce a fraudulent treaty.

He was imprisoned on suspicion of complicity in the attempt made by James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell and Patrick Gray, 6th Lord Gray to surprise the king at Falkland in June 1592 ; and though he obtained his release, he was again proclaimed a rebel on account of the discovery of his signature to two of the Spanish Blanks, unwritten sheets subscribed with the names of the chief conspirators in a plot for a Spanish invasion of Scotland, to be filled up later with the terms of the projected treaty.

Herschel's discovery of Uranus in 1781 inspired Schröter to pursue astronomy more seriously, and he resigned his post and became chief magistrate and district governor of Lilienthal.

Kumara was founded and become one of the country's chief gold mining centres following the discovery of gold at Dillmanstown, about to the south-east, in 1876.

" The best coverage came from The Daily Excelsior, reporting " The FBI ’ s examination of the hard disk of the cellphone company Omar Sheikh had subscribed to led to the discovery of the " link " between him and the deposed chief of the Pakistani ISI, Gen. Mehmood Ahmed.

With the discovery of Atlantis ' location in the Pegasus Galaxy, McKay is assigned to Dr. Elizabeth Weir's expedition to Atlantis, serving as chief scientific adviser.

His chief works are: several poems for a poetical annual, the " Alpenblumen ", a translation of St. Chrysostom's " On the Priesthood " ( 1833 ); studies upon Oswald's treatise of Wolkenstein, which led to the discovery of a valuable manuscript containing " Titurel " and the " Nibelungenlied ", " Das Land Tirol " ( 1837-8 ); " Meran und seine Umgebung " ( 1845 ); " Die Stadt Bozen und ihre Umgebung " ( 1849 ); " Das Tal Passeier und seine Bewohner " ( 1851 ), containing an account of Andreas Hofer and the events of 1809 ; " Erhuldihistorischen Bildern und Fragmenten " ( 1841 ); " Lieder aus Tirol " ( 1842 ), a selection of his poems ; " Blüten heiliger Liebe und Andacht.

The chief witness to the discovery of her method for treating poliomyelitis was Aeneas McDonnell, who died before the story was widely publicised.

It was later learned the $ 25, 000 came from Dwayne Andreas, chief executive officer of Archer Daniels Midland, as an anonymous donation to the Nixon campaign. Woodward later commented that finding Dahlberg's check was a turning point in their Watergate investigation because it led to the discovery of how the Watergate burglars were financed through a money-laundering scheme.

But Nerchinsk acquired fresh importance from the influx of immigrants, mostly exiles, into eastern Dauria, the discovery of rich mines and the arrival of great numbers of convicts to the Nerchinsk katorga, and ultimately it became the chief town of Transbaikalia.

After its discovery in 2148, Saraksh immediately became subject to a progressor project which four years later was personally headed by the chief of COMCON-2, Rudolf Sikorski.

As the new bureau chief, O ' Donnell wrote about developments, such as the Russian discovery and identification ( after several mistakes ) of Hitler's body in mid-May of the same year.

James Clifford Foster is the chairman and chief executive officer of Charles River Laboratories, Inc., an international company that works on the drug discovery and development process.

There is a high degree of academic uncertainty regarding the parentage of Shoshenq II: some scholars today argue that this mid-50's year old ruler was actually a younger son of Shoshenq I due to the discovery of items naming the founder of the 22nd Dynasty in his royal Tanite tomb such as " a pectoral of the great chief of the Ma Shoshenq A, and a bracelet of Shoshenq I.

Much alarmed by his discovery, Cuignet apprised the chief of the cabinet ( General Roget ) and the minister, Cavaignac.

He wondered where the superstition had originated that it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch his plane take off on a combat mission.

The Nazis knew this, of course, and while their chief quarry was the industrial centers, they let a few drop every time they went over, hoping for a lucky hit.

She was not an overnight guest in the White House, but Mr. Ike Hoover, the chief usher, had Mama check her fur coat when she came in, and take care of her needs.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

the rather pleasant white city was on the hill where the chief stores were.

She soared over the new pastor like an avenging angel lest he stray from the path and not know all the truth and gossip of which she was chief repository.

On these excursions, Papa instructed him on man's chief end, which was his duty to God and his own salvation.

In 1931 Mrs. F. H. Briggs, agent and chief operator, who was to retire in 1946 with thirty years' service, led agency offices in sales for the year with $2,490.

Movement itself was the chief and often the only attraction of the primitive movies of the nineties.

The disclosure by Charles Bellows, chief defense counsel, startled observers and was viewed as the prelude to a quarrel between the six attorneys representing the eight former policemen now on trial.

In October 1944, he was appointed state warden and chief of the Forest Fire Section.

But just before luncheon today the fact was announced grimly by the British navy's chief adviser to the cabinet on underwater warfare, Capt. George Symonds.

This was the chief reason for a so-so sales outlook given by two-thirds of 56 builders polled by the National Housing Center.

Control of the government -- such control as there was and such government as there was -- passed into the hands of Joseph Mobutu, chief of staff of the Congolese army.

For the Lo Shu square was a remarkably complete compendium of most of the chief religious and philosophical ideas of its time.

Yuri Soloviev, Oleg Sokolov, Alexei Zhitkov, Lev Sokolov, Yuri Korneyev and Mr. Livshitz were the chief soloists, but everybody on stage was magnificent.

Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.

Yellow Wolf was there, nephew of the young chief by an older brother long dead, in whom also the disordered chemistries of youth worked.

However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

In the time of Augustus, who considered himself under the special protection of Apollo and was even said to be his son, his worship developed and he became one of the chief gods of Rome.

Johnston was assigned to posts in New York and Missouri and served in the Black Hawk War in 1832 as chief of staff to Bvt.

The sea was traditionally known as Archipelago ( in Greek, Αρχιπέλαγος, meaning " chief sea "), but in English this word's meaning has changed to refer to the Aegean Islands and, generally, to any island group.

The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.