to depose

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
TO DEPOSE, practice. To make a deposition; to give testimony as a witness. 
    
from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
TO DEPOSE, rights. The act of depriving an individual of a public employment 
or office, against his will. Wolff, Sec. 1063. The term is usually applied 
to the deprivation of all authority of a sovereign. 
    

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