Decisive Oath
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Decisive oath [sacramentum decisionis, Lat.], in the Civil Law, where one of the parties to a suit, not being able to prove his charge, offered to refer the decision of the cause to the oath of his adversary; which the adversary was bound to accept, or tender the same proposal back again, otherwise the whole was taken as confessed by him, Cod, 4, 1, 12
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