deponing

Then the children of Reuben ... answered -- repudiating, in the strongest terms, the alleged crime, and deponing that so far from entertaining the intention imputed to them, their only object was to perpetuate the memory of their alliance with Israel [Jos 22: 24, 25], and their adherence to the worship of Israel's God [Jos 22: 26, 27].

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

D.A. thereon at deponing, and that he himself delivered the said hat to James Small, factor on the estate of Strowan.

Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's Regiment of Foot Walter Scott 1801

Small, to be kept by him till it should be called for; and that he brought it along with him to town, and he knows it to be the same by the letters D.A. which he often observed thereon, and now at deponing:

Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald for the Murder of Arthur Davis, Sergeant in General Guise's Regiment of Foot Walter Scott 1801

"It is true, there are some few of the adminicles that are proven only by one witness; but as to this you may consider, 1st, That a witness deponing _de facto proprio_, is in law more credited than any other single witness.

The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales James Grant