A certificate placed at the bottom of an affidavit, declaring that the witness has been sworn or affirmed to the truth of the facts therein alleged. Its usual form is,: Sworn (or affirmed) before me, the ____ day of ____, 10 __. The Jurat.
Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition
In old English law. A jury of twelve men sworn. Especially, a jury of the common law, as distinguished from the assisa. The jury clause in a nisi prius record, so called from the emphatic words of the old forms: “Jurata ponitur in respectum” the jury is put in respite. Townsh. PL 487. Also a jurat, (which see.)