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Telegram
is like an unsigned/anonymous communication. Unless a telegram is confirmed by a subsequent signed application, representation or an affidavit, the contents of the telegrams have no authenticity at all and the same cannot be taken into consideration
Tenure
other vassals, and perfected by homage and fealty; homage being the acknowledgment of tenure, and faculty the solemn oath made by the vassal of fidelity and attachment to the lord. The owner of a knight's fee was
Corroboration
24 Geo. 5, c. 1), s. 38, the evidence of children of tender years, though not given on oath, needs corroboration. See UNUS NULLUS RULE. of a witness's testimony must be afforded by means of independent evidence
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Trial
the Annual County Courts Practice. In the Chancery Division of the High Court, when the trial is by affidavit it is commonly called a hearing, and all the counsel on both sides are heard in order, the
True copy
1: (1985) 2 SCR 278. The object of serving a 'true copy' of an election petition and the affidavit filed in support of the allegations of corrupt practice on the respondent in the election petition is to
Visitation books of Heralds
inquire into the state of families, to register marriages and descents, which were verified to the heralds upon oath; they are allowed to be good evidence of pedigree, 3 Steph. Com. See Hubback on Succession, p. 538.
Wager of law
vadatio legis, Lat.], a proceeding which consisted in a defendant's discharging himself from the claim on his own oath, bringing with him at the same time into Court eleven of his neighbours (compuratores) to swear that they
Witam
Witam, the purgation from an offence by the oath of the requisite number of witnesses.
Question of fact
judge. So in questions as to the competence of a witness to be sworn. See VOIR DIRE; WITNESS; OATH. The law of a foreign country is a question of fact. See FOREIGN LAW.
Promissory oaths
Promissory oaths. See OATH.
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