Translation of affidavit – English-Spanish dictionary

a written statement that someone makes after promising officially to tell the truth. An affidavit can be used as proof in a law court.

declaración jurada, affidávit

(Translation of affidavit from the Cambridge English-Spanish Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Translation of affidavit | PASSWORD English–Spanish Dictionary

/ ˌæfiˈdeivit / a written statement which you swear is true and which is used as evidence in a court of law Declaración Jurada a sworn affidavit.

(Translation of affidavit from the PASSWORD English–Spanish Dictionary © 2014 K Dictionaries Ltd)

Examples of affidavit

In speech act terms, they work at ensuring that the felicity conditions of an affidavit are met. The parties filed over 60 affidavits and supporting material of over 1,000 pages.

The affidavit is meant to pre-empt such moves, although it may easily be dismissed by the police if they so desire.

He was able to delay the trial for a year by tendering an affidavit that a crucial witness was abroad.

I considered newspapers to be a formal text type and letters and affidavits to be less formal types.

Each affidavit has a skeletal narrative outline or frame that begins with an orientation and ends with a resolution.

The paralegal interrupts with a question to help the applicant focus on information needed for the resolution section of the affidavit.

He said, get an affidavit, photo of marriage and certificate from temple and come back.

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Translations of affidavit

in Chinese (Traditional) （法庭上作證用的）書面證詞… in Chinese (Simplified) （法庭上作证用的）书面证词… in Portuguese juramento, depoimento, declaração juramentada… in more languages in Turkish in Indonesian in Vietnamese in Swedish in Norwegian in Ukrainian yeni beyanı… beëdigde verklaring… místopřísežné prohlášení… affidavit, skriftlig erklæring under ed… afidavit, surat pernyataan… คำให้การที่เป็นลายลักษณ์อักษรโดยมีการสาบาน… bản khai có tuyên thệ… oświadczenie pod przysięgą… die eidesstattliche Versicherung… beediget erklæring… письмові свідчення… Need a translator?

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