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verify

Medieval Latin verificare, from Latin verus true + -ficare to make] 1 : to confirm or substantiate by oath, affidavit, or deposition [ a motion] 2 : to establish the truth, accuracy, or reality of

Forswearer

One who rejects of renounces upon oath one who swears a false oath

Perjure

To cause to violate an oath or a vow to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue to make guilty of perjury

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Abatement

in Abatement at Common Law (which by 4 Anne, c. 16, s. 11, had to be substantiated by affidavit, and which is now abolished, see. R.S.C. Ord. XXI., r. 20) was one which stated some fact which

British ship

principal place of business in those dominions but not a natural born British subject who has taken the oath of allegiance to a foreign sovereign or State or become a citizen or subject of a foreign State

Deposition

Ord. XXXVII., R. 5, is also called a deposition. Deposition, includes any affidavit, affirmation or statement mode upon oath, Civil Aviation Act, 1982, s. 95(5) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 1660, p. 813.

Idoneum se facere; idoneare se

Idoneum se facere; idoneare se, means to make oneself sufficient, to clear oneself. To purge oneself by oath, of a crime that one is accused of committ-ing, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 749. Idoneum se

Interlineation

time of the execution or attestation. If there be any inter-lineation or erasure in the jurat of an affidavit, the affidavit cannot be read, unless authenticated by initials of officer, etc., R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXXVIII., r. 12.

Toleration Act

worship according to their own forms, or otherwise restrained their religious liberty, on condition of their taking the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and subscribing a declaration against transubstantiation; and in the case of dissenting ministers, subscribing

Parliamentary Committee

the House, but the House seldom reverses their decision. As to the power of such committees to administer oaths to witnesses, see the (English) Parliamentary Witnesses Oaths Act, 1871. As to the powers of a Committee of

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