deposition vs paper trail

deposition

noun
  • The process of taking sworn testimony out of court; the testimony so taken. 

  • The removal of someone from office. 

  • The production of a thin film of material onto an existing surface. 

  • The formation of snow or frost directly from water vapor. 

  • The act of depositing material, especially by a natural process; the resultant deposit. 

  • The formal placement of relics in a church or shrine, and the feast day commemorating it. 

  • The transformation of a gas into a solid without an intermediate liquid phase (reverse of sublimation) 

paper trail

noun
  • A written record, history, or collection of evidence. 

  • Records left by a person or organization in the course of activities. 

  • Physical evidence of something that occurred in the past. 

How often have the words deposition and paper trail occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )