Affidavits, or as they can often be misheard, ‘Affidavids’, are a category of legal document which are used to submit evidence to the court. Don’t feel bad if you made that mistake, people do often smoosh the pronunciation of affidavit into affidavid, even when they aren’t speaking fast, it’s easy to do.
Because of how fundamental the presentation of evidence (or even just recording of it, if there’s no way to know when it might be used) to any legal process, these documents are bread and butter in every law firm in every area of practice. If you’re a paralegal or law student who hasn’t done so already, it would not be a bad idea to do some research on how to draft one.
There are far more specific conventions for drafting these than I’m going to go into here, but they are basically regimentally structured and organised stories of the witnesses in cases, including the parties (and sometimes the parties’ lawyers) themselves.
Affidavits are often used more broadly than just as evidence for the parties’ cases, but also that parties have been served and to demonstrate a party’s beliefs under certain circumstances, for example that the other side has no real defence.
Disclaimer: Nothing in this video constitutes legal advice, they are intended to give watchers enough information to carry on a casual conversation about law without needing to stop and ask what different terms mean, NOT as a springboard for legal arguments.
If are reading this to help understand legal advice you have been given, always ask the lawyer themselves for clarification if you didn't know the meaning of a word of concept they have mentioned because they may be using a different meaning or plan to apply the concept in a way that I have not covered.
All of the concepts described are broad and I intentionally do not give enough information to determine whether any of the ideas discussed will be explicable in any scenario, hypothetical or literal.
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