 | Sir William Reynell Anson - Constitutions - 1897 - 422 pages
...(31 & 32 Victc. 72.) Oaths Act 1 888' enables any person who objects to being sworn, on the grounds either that he has no religious belief or that the...taking of an oath is contrary to his religious belief, to make a solemn affirmation when and wheresoever the taking of an oath is required by law. (51 & 52... | |
 | Francis James Newman Rogers - Election law - 1897 - 828 pages
...religious belief, shall be permitted to oath. make his solemn affirmation instead of taking an oath in all places and for all purposes where an oath is or shall bo required by law, which affirmation shall be of the same force and effect as if ho had taken the... | |
 | Great Britain. State Trials Committee - Trials - 1898 - 796 pages
...provides that an}' person, on objecting to to be sworn, and stating, as the ground of his objection, either that he has no religious belief, or that the...taking of an oath is contrary to his religious belief, muy make a solemn affirmation instead of taking an oath, in all places and for all purposes where an... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - Evidence (Law) - 1898 - 586 pages
...following Article.' Every person objecting to being 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 religious belief, may make his solemn affirmation, which is of the same force and effect as if he had taken the oath,... | |
 | Seymour Frederick Harris - Criminal law - 1899 - 636 pages
...where magistrates deal with matters falling within their summary jurisdietion, v. II & 12 Viet. c. 43. religious belief, or that the taking of an oath is contrary to his religious belief, he may be permitted to make a solemn affirmation, instead of taking an oath (a). There are two cases... | |
 | 1899 - 948 pages
...later Parliament passed the Oaths Amendment Act, which authorises "every person objecting to be sworn " to make his solemn affirmation " in all places and...purposes where an oath is or shall be required by law." Passing over another five years, the Parish Councils' Bill, in explicit terms declared that sex was... | |
 | Nova Scotia - Law - 1900 - 1368 pages
...his religious belief, shall be permitted to make his solemn affirmation instead of taking an oath, see fit receive from any member willing to advance the same, all shall be of the same force and effect as if he had taken the oath. Form of afflrma- (2.) Every such... | |
 | John Stephenson Rowntree - Society of Friends - 1901 - 104 pages
...— i. — 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... | |
 | Edmund Robert Daniell - Equity pleading and procedure - 1901 - 1306 pages
...without question (sz) ; or unless he objects to being sworn, 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 religious belief, in which case he must affirm in statutory form («). If, however, he does not object to being sworn,... | |
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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 taking of an oath is contrary to his religious belief... 
