deponents

As a matter of fact none of the words of any of the deponents are their own words, but they are the words of the lawyers who drew the Answers to the Interrogatories.

Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875

A simple query using the search term 'deposition' yields over 400 video clips, in which many of the deponents are made to look boorish, mendacious, or unintelligent.

Cheney bashes YouTube, fears lawsuit may expose his staff to public humiliation 2008

A simple query using the search term 'deposition' yields over 400 video clips, in which many of the deponents are made to look boorish, mendacious, or unintelligent.

Cheney bashes YouTube, fears lawsuit may expose his staff to public humiliation 2008

How about expanding this technique to reticent witnesses and deponents?

The Volokh Conspiracy » Can A Suspect Be Tased Into Complying With a Court Order?: 2009

Depositions are usually reserved for only deponents, parties, and attorneys of those parties.

CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2009 2009

Prospective deponents who do not heed informal efforts on the part of counsel and do not appear will face potential exclusion.

Baby May Have Back, but Mark Kirk's Sorry Email Push Poll is Thin on Facts Ellen Beth Gill 2008

Note 76: Writers on women in colonial America have also discussed the importance of women deponents as sources of information in colonial courts.

Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

Of course, just as in the case of male deponents, some of the testimony of female witnesses was deemed inaccurate or frivolous.

Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

In the taking of legal oaths, for instance, deponents seem to enjoy themselves mightily when they come to several good words in succession, for the expression of one idea; as, that they utterly detest, abominate, and abjure, or so forth; and the old anathemas were made relishing on the same principle.

David Copperfield 2007

Several deponents established that Tomás Carrisoli had made less than an active contribution to the rebellion, serving as nothing more than a figurehead.

The Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Dari 2001