the affidavit
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Affidavit · our affidavit · the brief
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Theaetetus (Greek)
But the men of the other sort are always in a hurry—for the water flowing through the water-clock urges them on— and the other party in the suit does not permit them to talk about anything they please, but stands over them exercising the law’s compulsion by reading the brief, from which no deviation is allowed (this is called the affidavit);
in the texts
On the Estate of Dicaeogenes
The sworn affidavit that the speaker filed against Leochares, read twice into the record, stating that Dicaeogenes (III.) gave up two-thirds of the estate and that Leochares became his surety.
Affidavit
Please read the affidavit.
Please read me the affidavit.
Theaetetus
The written legal brief read aloud in court proceedings, from which litigants are forbidden to deviate.
But the men of the other sort are always in a hurry—for the water flowing through the water-clock urges them on— and the other party in the suit does not permit them to talk about anything they please, but stands over them exercising the law’s compulsion by reading the brief, from which no deviation is allowed (this is called the affidavit);