affidavit manとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

affidavit man (複数形 affidavit men)

1. (archaic または historical) A man who (in the 1700s または 1800s) loitered around courts, offering to bear false witness.
   • 1742, Proceedings of the Political Club &c, published in The London Magazine, January 1742, page 222:

     We know how easy it is for Ministers to find Affidavit Men, and no Court in England could give the Gentleman any Redress, because the Search was every Night made according to the express Directions of an Act of Parliament. […] no Man could say, the Affidavit Man had taken a false Oath, when he swore he had Reason to suspect, that Seamen would be that night concealed in such a House; […]