What's the difference between affirmation and jurat?

Affirmation


Definition:

  • (n.) Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law.
  • (n.) The act of affirming or asserting as true; assertion; -- opposed to negation or denial.
  • (n.) That which is asserted; an assertion; a positive statement; an averment; as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality.
  • (n.) A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is in law equivalent to an oath.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The accumulated evidence would strongly favor an affirmative answer.
  • (2) Such identification would have a useful application in affirming the possible zoonotic transmission of animal source Giardia species to humans.
  • (3) We suggest that sick districts can be affirmed on the basis of the total amount of fluoride intake, the prevalence rates of dental fluorosis, bad incomplete teeth, milk-teeth and the mean output of urinary fluoride between 8 and 15 years of age.
  • (4) Their presence was a political affirmation that in Germany the arts matter.
  • (5) An affirmative result for the preamble was obtained in this study.
  • (6) It would have been known as the Office of Congressional Complaint Review, and the rule change would have required that “any matter that may involve a violation of criminal law must be referred to the Committee on Ethics for potential referral to law enforcement agencies after an affirmative vote by the members”, according to the office of Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Republican from Virginia who pushed for the change.
  • (7) This finding does not affirm the belief that protection of adult skin from exposure to the sun will reduce the risk from melanoma.
  • (8) : Would you feel angry?, produced significantly more affirmative responses (reports of feeling angry) than non-inducing questions, e.g.
  • (9) Although the ADA provides for Americans with disabilities to be included in American society, it has some major limitations, including the lack of an affirmative action requirement and of provisions for the education and training of persons with disabilities so that they can qualify for employment.
  • (10) BBC’s new iPlay service affirms commitment to children’s broadcasting Read more “The innovations we’ve proposed today are the start of a new model for the BBC.
  • (11) If the answer is affirmative, development of the pregnancy represents represents a test of particular biological value in assessing the efficiency of ressuscitation therapy; 2.
  • (12) "By far the most exhilarating and life-affirming concert I have ever experienced."
  • (13) The most behaviorally potent analogues examined, DOB, DOM, and 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine, were found to possess rather high affirmities (pA2 = 7.35, 7.12, and 7.08, respectively) for the 5-HT receptors of the model system.
  • (14) Ethical standards are a set of affirmative responsibilities to which the investigator must subscribe; behavior that is incompatible with these responsibilities should be presumed unethical, whether or not it is explicitly proscribed.
  • (15) The situation of self-affirmation was (1) that subjects affirmed the self in private or (2) that the experimenter also affirmed the subject's self or (3) that the experimenter added information of another one who had the same aspect of self the subjects had affirmed.
  • (16) Study results can neither reject nor affirm the validity and applicability of the Easterlin hypothesis.
  • (17) Behaviors were classified as providing affect, affirmation, or aid support.
  • (18) Our commitment to liberty is America's tradition - declared at our founding; affirmed in Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms; asserted in the Truman Doctrine and in Ronald Reagan's challenge to an evil empire.
  • (19) Affirmative results were obtained to prove that diffusion-absorption on carbon-desorption dosimetry is applicable to monitor exposure to mixed vapors of organic solvents (n-hexane:ethyl acetate:toluene=1:4:1).
  • (20) We are also grateful to Judge Shreier for writing such a detailed and powerful analysis and for affirming in such strong terms that same-sex couples have the same fundamental freedom to marry as others.” Opponents of same-sex marriage have long argued that the issue should be decided by state governments, not courts.

Jurat


Definition:

  • (n.) A person under oath; specifically, an officer of the nature of an alderman, in certain municipal corporations in England.
  • (n.) The memorandum or certificate at the end of an asffidavit, or a bill or answer in chancery, showing when, before whom, and (in English practice), where, it was sworn or affirmed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) COMMONWEALTH GUERNSEY ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Officer (OBE) Jurat Stephen Edward Francis Le Poidevin.
  • (2) JERSEY ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Officer (OBE) Jurat John Claude Tibbo.

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