| Edmund Powell - Evidence (Law) - 1892 - 836 pages
...objection must be stated, and such ground must be one of the two mentioned in the Act, viz., absence of religious belief, or that the taking of an oath is contrary to deponent's religious belief. An objection based on any other ground, or an objection based on no stated... | |
| Sidney Lovell Phipson - Evidence (Law) - 1892 - 530 pages
...see infra, Form of Oath) ; or " if he objects to be sworn, and states as the ground of such objection that the taking of an oath is contrary to his religious belief," he will be allowed to aff1rm (Oaths Act, 1888, s. 1). It is the duty of the judge, however, to see... | |
| 1894 - 710 pages
...follows : 1. Every person upon objecting to being sworn, and stating, as the ground of such objection, either that he has no religious belief, or that the...shall be permitted to make his solemn affirmation instead of taking an oath in all places and for all purposes where an oath is or shall be required... | |
| Francis James Newman Rogers - Election law - 1895 - 828 pages
...same force and effect as an oath, and may be made by any person objecting to being sworn on the ground that he has no religious belief or that the taking of an oath is contrary to his religious belief . Attorney- The Attorney-General was, for the same reasons as the judges, excluded from the House of... | |
| Francis James Newman Rogers - Election law - 1894 - 816 pages
...Prius, ibid. s. 94 (1) ; How any witness who objects to being sworn, either on the swonl' ground that ho has no religious belief, or that the taking of an oath is contrary to his religious belief, may affirm : 51 & 52 Viet. c. 46, s. 1. A witness is now no longer excused from answering Obligation... | |
| Francis James Newman Rogers - Election law - 1897 - 834 pages
...upon objecting to being sworn, and When1 stating, as the ground of such objection, either that he j has no religious belief, or that the taking of an oath is 1* contrary to his religious belief, shall be permitted to oath." make his solemn affirmation instead... | |
| James Crankshaw - Canada - 1895 - 768 pages
...required, by law, every pel-son, upon objecting to be sworn and stating as the ground of such objection, either, that he has no religious belief, or that the taking of an oath is contrary to his reiligious belief, shall be permitted to make bis solemn declaration and affirmation, instead of taking... | |
| Great Britain, Cyril Dodd, Charles Edward Allan - Railroads, Local and light - 1896 - 364 pages
...enacts that "every person upon objecting to being sworn and stating as the ground of his objection, either that he has no religious belief, or that the...contrary to his religious belief, shall be permitted to be sworn." If the witness objects on any other ground or refuses to state his ground, he must be sworn.... | |
| Sir William Oldnall Russell, Horace Smith, Alfred Percival Perceval Keep - Criminal law - 1896 - 916 pages
...1, 'Every person objecting to be sworn, and stating as the ground of such objection either that lie has no religious belief or that the taking of an oath is contrary to his religious belief, (b) shall be permitted to make his solemn affirmation instead of taking an oath in all places and for... | |
| John Hutton Balfour Browne, Charles Edward Allan - Compensation (Law) - 1896 - 1020 pages
...person is now permitted to affirm who objects to be sworn and states as the ground of such objection either that he has no religious belief or that the taking of an oatli is contrary to his religious belief (Oaths Act, 1888, 51 & 52 Viet. c. 46, s. 1). "Sheriff."—... | |
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