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depositional

depositional

8.1
A spoken statement given under oath and recorded for use in court
  • adjective
  • /dɪˈpɒzɪʃənl/
  • Formal
translation icon : declarativo
  • The witness provided a depositional account that detailed the events leading up to the incident.

Examples

  • During the trial, the judge reviewed the depositional records to ensure all facts were accurately captured.

  • The lawyer prepared a depositional statement to present in court based on her client's testimony.

  • No more depositional battles, jurisdictional confrontations, or hair-splitting debates about responsibility for poisoning what was left of the livable earth.

    Fiction book (1997)

Surface Forms

depositional positive

Morphology

depositional = deposition (opaque) = deposit + ion + al

The form is built regularly from 'deposit' through 'deposition', but the legal sense is specialized and not readily recoverable for a learner who only knows the base verb.

Etymology

Depositional comes from the same root as deposit, made of Latin parts de- 'down' and ponere 'to put'. In law a 'deposition' is someone 'putting down' their words for the record, so depositional means relating to those sworn statements.