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kind), or receiving pay from the Crown, or holding a place of trust under it, should take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, subscribe a declaration against transubstantiation, and receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according

Transubstantiation

Car. 2, st. 2, c. 1 (of which 'so much as is unrepealed' was repealed by the Parliamentary Oaths Act, 1866), required the sovereign 'on the first day of the meeting of the first Parlyament next after

Jury

Articles of their inquiry by the presiding judge. They sit in private, and receive indictments inquiring, upon their oaths, whether there be sufficient cause shown by the evidence of the prosecution to call upon the accused persons

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Justice of the peace

means 'A local judicial officer having jurisdiction over minor criminal offences and minor civil functions (such as administering oaths and performing marriage ceremonies, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 869.

Administrative law judge

law judge, means an official who presides at an administrative hearing and who has the power to administer oaths, take testimony, rule on questions of evidence, and make factual and legal determinations, 5 USCA 556 (c).

Indemnity

the Land Register, see (English) Land Registration Act, 1925, ss. 82-85. Acts of Indemnity for neglect to take oaths of office, etc. (see, e.g., 30 & 31 Vict. c. 88, s. 1), were rendered unnecessary by 31

High Steward, Court of the Lord

to sit and vote are summoned 21 days before such trial, and every lord appearing and taking the oaths may vote upon the trial. The decision is by the majority, but a majority cannot convict, unless it

District Registry

such district registrary are to be received in evidence without further proof; and the district registrars may administer oaths or do other things as provided by rules or a special order of the Court (s. 62). Power,

Devenerunt

of the heir of the king's tenant, under age and in custody, commanding the escheator that, by the oaths of good and lawful men, he inquire what lands and tenements, by the death of the tenant, came

Criminal proceeding

Criminal proceeding, a criminal proceeding is ordinarily one in which if carried to its conclusion it may result in the imposition of sentences such as death, imprisonment, fine or forfeiture of property. It also includes proceedings...

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