Multiple Deponents (Affidavit)

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Date Retrieved:	2024-04-30
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Citation:	Multiple Deponents (Affidavit), CLNP 2370, <https://rvt.link/bk>, retrieved on 2024-04-30
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Last Updated:	2024/04/07

R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 194: RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE

Affidavits

Format

4.06 (1) An affidavit used in a proceeding shall,

(a) be in Form 4D;

(b) be expressed in the first person;

(c) state the full name of the deponent and, if the deponent is a party or a lawyer, officer, director, member or employee of a party, shall state that fact;

(d) be divided into paragraphs, numbered consecutively, with each paragraph being confined as far as possible to a particular statement of fact; and

(e) be signed by the deponent and sworn or affirmed in accordance with the Commissioners for Taking Affidavits Act. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 194, r. 4.06 (1); O. Reg. 575/07, s. 1; O. Reg. 689/20, s. 8.

Contents

(2) An affidavit shall be confined to the statement of facts within the personal knowledge of the deponent or to other evidence that the deponent could give if testifying as a witness in court, except where these rules provide otherwise.

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By Two or More Deponents

(4) Where an affidavit is made by two or more deponents, there shall be a separate jurat for each deponent, unless all the deponents make the affidavit before the same person at the same time, in which case one jurat containing the words “Sworn (or affirmed) by the above-named deponents” may be used.