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noun
A commission appointed to take evidence by deposition where the deponent is unwilling or unable to come to court and the court cannot compel the witness/deponent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
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History
From Latin de bene esse (“for the good cause”).
