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What is a jurat?

What is a jurat? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) A sworn statement concerning where, when, and before whom an oath has been made.
  2. (law, obsolete) A sworn person, particularly:
    1. (law, historical) A medieval informant: a man sworn to provide information about crimes committed in his neighborhood.
    2. (law, obsolete) A juror.
    3. A councilman or alderman of the Cinque Ports.
    4. A magistrate of Channel Islands, serving for life, who forms part of the islands' royal court.
    5. (historical) A municipal officer of Bordeaux and certain other French towns.
    6. (historical, in French contexts) A member of any association sworn to do nothing against its internal rules.
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In this case, an information failed to include in the jurat the date of swearing, and the place of swearing was changed without being initialed.
In 1834 he returned to his country, and attended the sittings of the Diet, at Presburg, as jurat.
On one occasion it was declared impossible to proceed with co-option of a jurat replacement because the community had not been forewarned to attend that particular meeting.
When I have served a year as jurat, and have paid a ducat for my diploma.
After the trial judge had disposed of the motion on November 29, 2001 relating to the date on the jurat, the defendant entered a plea of not guilty to both counts.
It had belonged to a jurat of repute, who parted with it to Mattingley not long before he died.

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