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Voluntary, voluntary confession

are made mostly out of a thirst to speak the truth which at a given time predominates in the heart of

rebut a defence of privileged occasion, but neither want of truth nor malice are relevant to the defence of absolute privilege.

To prove to be true, to confirm or establish the truth or truthfulness of; to authentically 2. To confirm or substantiate

The act of prevaricating shuffling or quibbling to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth a deviation from the truth

the heading of deceit (q.v.). A knowing misrepresentation of the truth or con-cealment of a material fact to induce another to

sole object and end of evidence is to ascertain the truth of the several disputed facts or points in issue; and

as touching the matters in question I will speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but truth']. For the purposes

which would incriminate him unless urged by the promptings of truth and conscience, Sahib Singh v. State of Haryana, (1997) 7

Voir dire [veritatem dicere, Lat., 'to tell the truth,' voir being the Norman-French for vrai]. A sort of preliminary

c. 28) emphatically denounced it as leaving no place for truth, and Seneca as forcing even the innocent to lie. Under