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Masters extraordinary in Chancery
officers of the High Court of Chancery who performed duties similar to those now performed by commissioners for oaths. Now abolished.
Questa
Questa, means a quest; an inquest or inquiry upon the oaths of an impanelled jury, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1259.
Ordels
Ordels, the right of administering oaths and adjudging trials by ordeal within a precinct or liberty.
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Privy
after the demise of the Crown, unless sooner determined by the successor. Privy councillors, on taking the necessary oaths, become immediately privy councillors, with the title of 'Right Honourable,' during the life of the sovereign who chooses
Protestant
first happen, to make a declaration taken from 30 Car. 2, st. 2 (repealed by the (English) Parliamentary Oaths Act, 1866), and expressed therein to be 'in the plain and ordinary sense of the words as they
Quaker
alike share in the ministry and government of the religious body. As to affirmations by Quakers instead of oaths, see AFFIRMATION. As to their marriages, see MARRI-AGE.
Tichborne case
on Evidence, 10th Edn., s. 517 B, where an extract from Orton's confession, sworn before a commissioner for oaths, is given; Article in Supplement to Dictionary of Biography, tit. 'Orton'; Famous Trials of the Century (19th), by
Sancta
Sancta, reliques of saints, upon which oaths were made.
Statutory Declarations Act, 1835
Statutory Declarations Act, 1835 (English) (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 62), which substitutes declarations for oaths in a large number of cases. The expression 'statutory declaration' in a statute means declaration under the above
Sworn brothers
Sworn brothers [fratres jurati, Lat.], persons who, by mutual oaths, covenant to share in each other's fortunes. See Sedg. Edw. Conf. c. 35.
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