PERPETUATING TESTIMONY. The act by which testimony is reduced to writing as
prescribed by law, so that the same shall be read in evidence in some suit
or legal proceedings to be thereafter instituted. The origin of this
practice may be traced to the canon law cap. 5, it ut lite non contestata,
&c., et ibi. Bockmer, n. 4; 8 Toull. n. 22. Vide Bill to perpetuate
testimony.