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plural affidavits
(law) A signed document wherein an affiant makes a sworn statement. quotations examples
Lee's case is urgent. He has to file an immediate affidavit that he is suffering from bubonic plague to avoid eviction from the house he has occupied ten years without paying the rent.
1962 , William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 170