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It says that no one shall be imprisoned, deponed or restricted without a fair trial.
ANC Today 2001
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It says that no one shall be imprisoned, deponed or restricted without a fair trial.
ANC Today 2001
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Other witnesses deponed that Rebecca muttered to herself in an unknown tongue, that the songs she sang were peculiarly sweet, that her garments were of a strange mystic form, and that she had rings with cabalistic devices.
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Another soldier deponed that he had seen Rebecca perch herself upon a high turret, and there take the form of a white swan, under which appearance she flitted three times round the castle of Torquailstone.
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Gubbins has deponed to you that he bought those sheep at the fair of Kelso, from a person of the name of Shiells, and that he paid the money for them.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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"I thank God witches are out of fashion," observes Lady Mary, in a letter to her daughter, when spicy gossip about her doings abroad had been circulated in London, "or I should expect to have it deponed, by several credible witnesses, that I had been seen flying through the air on a broomstick."
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Captain Ross and his brother officer secured the swords of both men -- shutting the stable door, indeed, after the steed was stolen; in hot haste doctors were sent for; and 'mid the bustle and "strow" Eliott stumbled from the room and down the stair, "wanting his wig," as the landlady, whom he passed on the way, deponed.
Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang
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He came in with his family, a son and a daughter, and four or five servants: they all left the house the next day, and although they deponed that they had all seen something different, that something was equally terrible to all.
The Haunted and the Haunters: Or the House and the Brain 1921
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The fatal bonnet lay on the table of the Court; Bargally swore that it was the identical article worn by the man who robbed him; and he and others likewise deponed that they had found the accused on the spot where the crime was committed, with the bonnet on his head.
Additional Note 1917
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And other her maids have deponed how the Queen hath sent them from her presence and relieved them of tasks ---- '
The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906
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