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Voluntary oath
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Oath
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Affidavit
of documents referred to in pleadings or affidavits, see Ord. XI, r. 15, C.P.C., 1908. Affidavit is a voluntary declaration of facts written down and sworn to by the declaration before an officer authorized to administer oaths … pledge one's faith, fr. fides, Lat.], a written statement sworn before a person having authority to administer an oath. By the practice of the Supreme Court of Judicature, all evidence is, as a rule, to be given
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Confession
its contents can then be shown to be evasive or false or inconsistent with the maker's evidence on oath, Regina v. Z., (2005) 2 WLR 709 (Police and Criminal Evidence Act, 1984, s. 76). Only voluntary and … the witness before whom the confession is made and is otherwise satisfied that the confession is in fact voluntary and without there being any doubt in regard thereto, an order of conviction can be founded on such
Declaration in lieu of oath
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Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, … Moreover, the promise must either be proved by writing of the promisor, or by confession of it on oath. The result is that if the promise was not in writing the promise cannot be proved and the
Copyhold
lord may seize the estate to his own use. The lord is also entitled to fines upon all voluntary grants, upon the admission of tenants by the curtesy, the free-bench, and indeed upon alienation generally, the only … to them. The following services and incidents are by general customs annexed to copyholds:' (1) Fealty, but the oath of fealty is now generally respited. (2) Suit of Court, for every copyholder is bound to attend the
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