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Repellitur a sacramento infamis
Repellitur a sacramento infamis (Co. Litt. 158a), the oath of an infamous person is not to be received.
Sacramentum si fatuum fuerit, licet falsum, tamen non committit perjurium
Sacramentum si fatuum fuerit, licet falsum, tamen non committit perjurium. 2 Inst. 167, (A foolish oath, though false, makes not perjury.)
Sailor
undergoing training as an artificer apprentice not being an officer and receiving fixed pay regularly after administration of oath is treated as 'sailor', Anuj Kumar Dey v. Union of India, (1997) SCC (L&S) 153.
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Sanctuary
Norwich, or York, or in London to Whitefriars or the Savoy, within forty days, on confession and taking oath of abjuration of the realm (see ABJURATION), escape to a foreign country, under the disability of not being
Separatists
Separatists, seceders from the Church. They, like Quakers, solemnly affirm, instead of taking the usual oath, before they give evidence. See 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 82; (English) Oaths Act, 1888 (51 &
Sessions of the peace
Offences subject to the penalties of pr'munire. (4) Blasphemy and offences against religion. (5) Administering or taking unlawful oaths. (6) Perjury and subornation of perjury. (7) Making or suborning any other person to make a false oath,
Six Articles, Law of
in case of offence, amended by 32 Hen. 8, c. 10, which required conviction to be on the oath of twelve men, and repealed by 1 Eliz. c. 1, 4 Reeves, 278.
Succession duties
the duty of 1 per cent. payable by lineal ancestors or descendants, in cases where the duty on affidavit for probate had been paid; and the (English) Finance Act, 1894, by s. 1 directed that this duty
Public officer
to take charge of dispose of any property, or to execute any judicial process, or to administer any oath, or to interpret, or to preserve order, in the Court, and every person especially authorized by a Court
Supplicavit
Supplicavit, a writ which issued out of Chancery for taking surety of the peace, upon Articles filed on oath, when one was in danger of being hurt in his body by another; it was addressed to the
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