His Amnesty Proclamation of December 8, 1863, offered pardons to those who had not held a Confederate civil office, had not mistreated Union prisoners, and would sign an oath of allegiance.

( d ) A legal obedience, where a particular law requires the taking of an oath of allegiance by subject or alien alike.

Legal allegiance was due when an alien took an oath of allegiance required for a particular office under the Crown.

The oath of allegiance is an oath of fidelity to the sovereign taken by all persons holding important public office and as a condition of naturalization.

The word is used for the oath of allegiance to an emir.

The Estates of the land then met at Königsberg ( Królewiec ) and took the oath of allegiance to the new duke, who used his full powers to promote the doctrines of Luther.

After a successful campaign Manuel I and Andronikos returned together to Constantinople ( 1168 ); but a year later, Andronikos refused to take the oath of allegiance to the future king Béla III of Hungary, whom Manuel desired to become his successor.

Owing to the refusal of the chief officers of the corporation to take the oath of allegiance to William III in 1688, the charter was annulled, and the town subsequently declined in prosperity.

It was superseded by the oath of allegiance.

The Bastarnae are reported to have honoured their oath of allegiance to the emperor, while the other resettled peoples mutinied while Probus was distracted by usurpation attempts and ravaged the Danubian provinces far and wide.

No person may accept significant public office without swearing an oath of allegiance to the Queen.

The King was recognized as having the right to invest bishops with secular authority (" by the lance ") in the territories they governed, but not with sacred authority (" by ring and staff "); the result was that bishops owed allegiance in worldly matters both to the pope and to the king, for they were obligated to affirm the right of the sovereign to call upon them for military support, under his oath of fealty.

Abu Bakr was elected as the first caliph or successor to Muhammad, with the other companions of Muhammad giving an oath of allegiance to him.

Over the next forty-five years the Acadians refused to sign an unconditional oath of allegiance to Britain.

Diocletian exacted an oath of allegiance from the defeated army and departed for Italy.

The right to grant a licentia docendi was originally reserved to the church which required the applicant to pass a test, to take oath of allegiance and pay a fee.

A dejected procession, numbering some 4, 000 according to most of the sources, such as Hills or Jackson filed out of the Land Port with Queen Isabella's banner at their head, and led by the Spanish Governor, Diego de Salinas, the Spanish garrison, with their three brass cannon, the religious orders, the city council and all those inhabitants who did not wish to take the oath of allegiance to Charles III as asked by the terms of surrender.

He or she appoints a deputy, to whom members make an oath of allegiance before they take their seats.

Fox was unable to travel there immediately: he was imprisoned again in 1664 for his refusal to swear the oath of allegiance, and on his release in 1666 was preoccupied with organizational matters — he normalized the system of monthly and quarterly meetings throughout the country, and extended it to Ireland.

Though this was " fixed " at one level, another year passed before the Volunteers took an oath of allegiance to the Irish Republic and its government, " throughout August 1920 ".

Charged with making " treasonous " remarks against the government, he was released when he took an oath of allegiance to the Union and paid a substantial fine.

In 1609 he published Tortura Torti, a learned work which grew out of the Gunpowder Plot controversy and was written in answer to Bellarmine's Matthaeus Tortus, which attacked James I's book on the oath of allegiance.

The imam's position was confirmed when the imam — having gained the allegiance of the tribal sheiks — received the bay ' ah ( oath of allegiance ) from the public.

' ... the Apostle James saith, ' My brethren, above all things swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor by any other oath.

* May 11 – The Killing Time: Five Covenanters in Wigtown, Scotland, notably Margaret Wilson, are executed for refusing to swear an oath declaring King James of England, Scotland and Ireland as head of the church, becoming the ' Wigtown martyrs '.

His name was connected to the allegiance oath controversy when a pamphlet " pasquil " Exetasis epistolæ nomine regis under the pseudonym Bartholus Pacenius against James I was traced to Braunsberg ; but the investigation by Patrick Gordon was inconclusive.

In 1994, then CEO James Johnston testified under oath before Congress, saying that he didn't believe that nicotine is addictive.

Lab manager James Roth swore under oath to the results at the trial.

The Highland chiefs sent word to James, now in exile in France, asking for his permission to take the oath.

When it became apparent that this was not going to happen before the deadline, James sent orders back to Scotland authorising the chiefs to take the oath.

Investigative journalist Max Wallace noted that " whatever credibility this absurd claim may have had was soon undermined when James M. Miller, a former Dearborn Independent employee, swore under oath that Ford had told him he intended to expose Sapiro.

The two main provisions of the Bill were severe penalties for anyone who spoke or printed asserted or implied that William and Mary were monarchs only " in fact " and not " of right ", and a new oath for all who held offices of profit under the Crown in which they had to swear to defend the government against the exiled king James and his adherents.

oath, as quoted by Thomas Clarke Luby and John O ' Leary, and which is among several versions in James Stephens ’ s own papers, ran:

However in 1690 Shrewsbury resigned from William's government due to ill-health and opposition to the dissolution of Parliament and the dropping of the Bill that would have required an oath abjuring James as king.

With the Glorious Revolution which speedily followed this impolitic trial, new troubles encountered Ken ; for, having sworn allegiance to James, he thought himself thereby precluded from taking the oath to William of Orange.

When deprived of his see by William and Mary in 1691 after he refused to transfer his oath of allegiance from James, on the grounds that once given, it could not be forsworn, he was given lodgings at Longleat and an £ 80 annuity by Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth, a friend since Oxford days.

Bird supplied the astronomer James Bradley with further instruments of such quality that the commissioners of longitude paid him £ 500 ( a huge sum ) on condition that he take on a 7-year apprentice and produce in writing upon oath, a full account of his working methods.

Whereunto are annexed the Copies of the Confessions, and Examinations of the parties themselves, taken upon oath before her Maiesties Commissioners, for causes Ecclesiasticall, James Roberts, Barbican, 1603 ; with a new title pages, London, 1605 ;

James Roth, the manager of the lab that carried out the analysis on the samples Leuchter collected, swore under oath to the results at the trial.

It signifies that, here in Canada, justice is done — not in the name of the Prime Minister, or the Mayor, or the Police Chief, as in totalitarian nations — but by the people, in the name of the Queen ," while James Robertson stated that the oath was the way elected members of parliament — who are assuming positions of public trust — promise to carry out their duties " patriotically, and in the best interests of the country.

This was directed against the oath of allegiance which James I required from his subjects.

The Highland chiefs sent word to James, now in exile in France, asking for his permission to take this oath.

James eventually authorised the chiefs to take the oath, but it was mid-December before his message arrived.

In 1874 it was discovered that another man named Ianto Parker, not Dic Penderyn, had stabbed Donald Black and then fled to America fearing capture by the authorities, and also that rebuttal witness James Abbott, who had testified at Penderyn's trial, admitted that he had lied under oath, under the orders of Lord Melbourne, in order to secure a conviction.

Though the kings of Majorca traditionally swore an oath of fealty to the kings of Aragon, James claimed that no king could have lordship over any other king.