| James Endell Tyler - Oaths - 1834 - 382 pages
...reflection to take of the essential nature of an oath. " AN OATH IS AN OUTWARD PLEDGE GIVEN BY THE JUROR THAT HIS ATTESTATION [oR PROMISE] IS MADE UNDER AN IMMEDIATE SENSE OF HIS RESPONSIBILITY TO GOD." Without improperly anticipating what we must examine hereafter, I may, in this early stage of our inquiry,... | |
| Law - 1834 - 614 pages
...be sacred."1 According to Mr. Tyler's definition, an oath is " an outward pledge given by the juror that his attestation [or promise] is made under an immediate sense of his responsibility to God." All that is necessary to an oath is, that the person who takes it should declare that the statement... | |
| Thomas Frederick Simmons - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1843 - 678 pages
...are Dot admiDutered, ASSEMBLY OF THE COURT. oath is an outward pledge given by the person who takes it, that his attestation or promise is made under an immediate sense of his responsibility to a supreme being;1 who, according to his belief, enjoins truth and will punish falsehood. This solemn... | |
| Elijah Middlebrook Haines - Constables - 1855 - 470 pages
...definition, an oath has been briefly defined to be : " An outward pledge, given by the juror," (or person taking it) " that his attestation, or promise,...under an immediate sense of his responsibility to God."2 (1) 2 Bonv. LD 238; 1 Stark. Ef. 23; Sccl Grconl. Ev. Sec. 328, where a somewhat different definition... | |
| William Gillespie Dickson - Evidence (Law) - 1864 - 646 pages
...remember that he will. Accordingly, an oath is said to be only an outward pledge giveu by the juror that his attestation or promise is made under an immediate sense of responsibility to the Deity ; see 1 Starkie, 32— 1 Greenl., g 328— Taylor, 918. But this is thought... | |
| Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1866 - 756 pages
...oath has been well defined, by the same writer, to be " an outward pledge, given by the juror" (or person taking it), "that his attestation or promise...an immediate sense of his responsibility to God." 8 A security to this extent, for the truth of testimony, is all that the law seems to have deemed necessary... | |
| Illinois. General Assembly. House of Representatives - Illinois - 1869 - 1050 pages
...tended to increase the probability of her sanity, and afforded a striking instance of the danger oi pronouncing a person insane simply because of their...on the conscience of the witness by this religious solomnity, it follows that persons incapable of understanding the nature and obligations of an oath... | |
| Illinois. General Assembly. Senate - Illinois - 1869 - 998 pages
...of deficient wide* standing, and as witnesses are required to take upon themselves an oath to spuak the truth ; and as an oath is an outward pledge, given by the person taking it that his attesiation or promise is made under an immediate sense of his responsibility to God ; aud the purpose... | |
| John Bouvier - Law - 1870 - 900 pages
...Guardian (D). See GUARDIAN; HABEAS CORPUS. NURUS (Lat.). A daughter-in-law. Dig. 50. 16. 50. o. OATH. An outward pledge given by the person taking it that...under an immediate sense of his responsibility to God. Tyler, Oaths, 15. The term has been variously defined: as, "a solemn invocation of the vengeance of... | |
| Thomas Frederick Simmons - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1873 - 572 pages
...last few years. (3) ^\- An oath (4) is an outward pledge given by the person Definition of who takes it, that his attestation or promise is made under an immediate sense of his reponsibility to a Divine Being : who, according to hw belief, will be displeased at being called upon... | |
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