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Oath
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OathA declaration made according to law, before a competent tribunal or officer, to tell the truth; or it is the act of one who, when lawfully required to tell the truth, takes God to witness that what he says is true. It is a religious act by which the party invokes God not only to witness the truth and sincerity of his promise, but also to avenge his imposture or violated faith, or in other words to punish his perjury if he shall be guilty of it.
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Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Tribunal
An assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business.
Truth
The actual state of things.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Witness
The regular definition of this word is a person who perceives an event (by seeing, hearing, smelling or other sensory perception). The legal definition refers to the court-supervised recital of that sensory experience, in writing (deposition) or verbally (testimony).
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
Promise
Contracts. An engagement by which the promisor contracts towards another to perform or do something to the advantage of the latter.
Faith
Probity; good faith is the very soul of contracts. Faith also signifies confidence, belief; as, full faith and credit ought to be given to the acts of a magistrate while acting within his jurisdiction.
Perjury
Criminal law. This offence at common law is defined to be a wilful false oath, by one who being lawfully required to depose the truth in any judicial proceedings, swears absolutely in a matter material to the point in question, whether he be believed or not.
Guilty
The state or condition of a person who has committed a crime, misdemeanor or offence. This word implies a malicious intent, and must be applied to something universally allowed to be a crime.
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Old head
In Virginia penitentiary slang, someone who has been incarcerated for many years.
Old lady
In the US penitentiary slang, passive partner in a prison homosexual relationship.
On the bottle
In the US penitentiary slang, subject to random or mandatory drug testing.
On the leg
In the US penitentiary slang, a prisoner who is always chatting with officers.
On the river
In Louisiana penitentiary slang, a phrase used to describe time spent at Angola State Prison, which is surrounded by rivers on three sides.
Oath
Obedience
The performance of a command.
Obit
That particular solemnity or office for the dead, which the Roman Ca- tholic church appoints to be read or performed over the body of a deceased member of that communion before interment; also the office which, upon the anniversary of his death, was frequently used as a commemoration or observance of the day.
Obiter dicta
Such opinions, uttered "by the way", not upon the point or question pending, but as if turning aside for the time from the main topic to a collateral subject.
Obiter dictum
By the way..., referring to a finding of law in a decision where that finding was based on issues not properly before the court. It is an opinion expressed by a court upon a question of law, which is not necessary to the decision of the case before it.
Objection
The verbal response of a lawyer when something inappropriate is happening during a trial or deposition. it is one of many steps involved in protecting the record.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Tribunal
An assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business.
Truth
The actual state of things.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Witness
The regular definition of this word is a person who perceives an event (by seeing, hearing, smelling or other sensory perception). The legal definition refers to the court-supervised recital of that sensory experience, in writing (deposition) or verbally (testimony).
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
Promise
Contracts. An engagement by which the promisor contracts towards another to perform or do something to the advantage of the latter.
Faith
Probity; good faith is the very soul of contracts. Faith also signifies confidence, belief; as, full faith and credit ought to be given to the acts of a magistrate while acting within his jurisdiction.
Perjury
Criminal law. This offence at common law is defined to be a wilful false oath, by one who being lawfully required to depose the truth in any judicial proceedings, swears absolutely in a matter material to the point in question, whether he be believed or not.
Guilty
The state or condition of a person who has committed a crime, misdemeanor or offence. This word implies a malicious intent, and must be applied to something universally allowed to be a crime.
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PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Old head
In Virginia penitentiary slang, someone who has been incarcerated for many years.
Old lady
In the US penitentiary slang, passive partner in a prison homosexual relationship.
On the bottle
In the US penitentiary slang, subject to random or mandatory drug testing.
On the leg
In the US penitentiary slang, a prisoner who is always chatting with officers.
On the river
In Louisiana penitentiary slang, a phrase used to describe time spent at Angola State Prison, which is surrounded by rivers on three sides.
Oath
Obedience
The performance of a command.
Obit
That particular solemnity or office for the dead, which the Roman Ca- tholic church appoints to be read or performed over the body of a deceased member of that communion before interment; also the office which, upon the anniversary of his death, was frequently used as a commemoration or observance of the day.
Obiter dicta
Such opinions, uttered "by the way", not upon the point or question pending, but as if turning aside for the time from the main topic to a collateral subject.
Obiter dictum
By the way..., referring to a finding of law in a decision where that finding was based on issues not properly before the court. It is an opinion expressed by a court upon a question of law, which is not necessary to the decision of the case before it.
Objection
The verbal response of a lawyer when something inappropriate is happening during a trial or deposition. it is one of many steps involved in protecting the record.
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