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Five-mile Act

& 8 Vict. c. 102. Also, 17 Car. 2, c. 2, whereby clergy who refused to take the oath of non-resistance imposed by the Act on all who had not subscribed the Act of Uniformity, were forbidden

Sub-Lt.-Arabinda Chakravarti, AIR 1959 SC 597 (607): (1959) Supp 1 SCR 979. Whoever being legally bound by an oath or by an express provision of law to state the truth, or being bound by law to make

Gloves

of white gloves. It is an immemorial custom to remove the glove from the right hand on taking oath

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Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

writ is applied for either by motion to a Court or application to a judge, supported by an affidavit of the facts. (See (English) Crown Office Rules, 1906, rr. 216-230.) If a probable ground be shown that

Lex sacramentalis

Lex sacramentalis, purgation by oath, Leg. H. 1.

Terra extendenda

escheator, etc., that he inquire and find out the true yearly value of any land, etc., by the oath of twelve men, and to certify the extent into the chancery, Reg. Brev. 293.

Lords' Act

and for sums not exceeding what are mentioned in the Act, to make discovery of and deliver upon oath their estates for their creditors' benefit,' in great part repealed by 1 & 2 Vict. c. 110, and

Special constables

Special constables, persons appointed by justices of the peace to assist in keeping the peace 'on the oath of a credible witness that any tumult, riot, or felony has taken place or may be reasonably apprehended

Ragman's-roll, or Ragimund's-roll

or Ragimont, a legate in Scotland, who, summoning all the beneficed clergymen in that kingdom, caused them on oath to give in the true value of their benefices, according to which they were afterwards taxed by the

Record

opened in 1902. There are three kinds of records, viz.: (1) judicial, as an attainder; (2) ministerial, on oath, being an office or inquisition found; (3) by way of conveyance, as a deed enrolled. As to ancient

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