Affidavit

“We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.”

“I am a trial lawyer…. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.”

“We cannot try the merits upon affidavit.”

“So many affidavits, so studiously and artfully penned, to be safely sworn in one sense and read in another, are an aggravation.”

“And now I will try to defend myself against them: these new accusers must also have their affidavit read. What do they say? Something of this sort: — That Socrates is a doer of evil, and corrupter of the youth, and he does not believe in the gods of the state, and has other new divinities of his own.”