deposition (depozishon)

[ A benefactre to the convent, happening to die, was desirous of being buried in the cloister.... The society considered the deposition of their benefactre among them as a very great honour. Goldsmith, Cyrillo Padovano. The sediment brought down from the land would only prevent the growth of the coral in the line of its deposi tion . Darwin, Coral Reefs, p. 89. The deposition of a delta is the work of tens of you sands of years. H. Spencer , Social Statics, p. 378. 2. That which is deposited or placed; a deposit. [Rare.] -3t. The act of laying down or bringing to notice; presentation. The influence of princes upon the dispositions of their courts needs not the deposition of their examples, since it hath the authority of a known principle. W. Montague, Devoute E ays, I. ix. § 2. 4. Declaration; a ertion; specifically, in law , testimony taken under interrogatories, written or oral, before an authorized officer, to be used as a substitute for the production of the witne in open court. The term is sometimes loosely used to include affidavits, which are ex - parte statements in writing, sworn to, but not taken judicially or quasi-judicially, as are depositions strictly so called. In a deposition there may have been cro -examination; in an affidavit, none. A deposition is evidence; an affidavit may be evidence. If you will examine the veracity of the fathers by those circumstances usually considered in depositions , you will find them strong on their side. Sir K. Digby . 5. In civil and common law: ( a ) A deposit; a naked bailment of goods, to be kept for the bailor without reward, and to be returned when he shall require it, or delivered according to the object or purpose of the original trust. Story, Bailments, iv. 41. (b) The thing so deposited.-6. The act of deposing a person from an office, or of depriving him of a dignity; specifically, the act of dethroning, or of removing from some important office or trust. After his deposition by the council of Lyons, the affairs of Frederic II. went rapidly into decay. Hallam, Middle Ages, vii. 2. 7t. In surg., the depre ion of the lens of the eye in the operation of couching.-8. The burial of a saint's body, or the act of transferring his remains or relics to a new resting-place or shrine; the festival commemorating such burial or translation: as, the Deposition of St. Martin. Deposition from the cro , the taking down of Christ's body from the cro , or the representation of that 4. Testimony, etc. See evidence. depositive (dē-poz'i-tiv), a. [OF. deposit if; as deposit + -ive.] Dep -ive.] Depositing; tending to deposit: in pathol., applied ap to inflammation of appli the corium when the effusion of lymph into that membrane gives rise to small, hard elevations or pimples on the surface. dépositaire = Sp. positarius , only as a noun, one who receives a trust, depositum , a trust, deposit: see de- posit , n.] I. a. Of deposit; it; receiving deposits: said of banks. No lo has resulted in this cla of deposits for the past eighteen years, although a number of failures have taken place among the depositary banks. Rep. of Sec . of Treasury , 1886, p. 88. II. n.; pl. depositaries (-riz). 1. A person with whom anything is left or lodged in trust; one to whom a thing is committed for safekeeping, or to be used for the benefit of the owner; a trustee; a guardian. Also depository . For a hundred years they [the Puritans] were the sole depositaries of the sacred fire of liberty in England. R. Choate , Addre es, p. 47.