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.

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.

* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

In Ireland the oath was imposed of state office holders, teachers and lawyers, and on clergy of the established church in from 1703, the following year it was on all Irish voters and from 1709 it can be demanded from any adult male by a magistrate.

He took the oath of office on 18 February 2010.

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

Ismail Omar Guelleh took the oath of office as the second President of the Republic of Djibouti on May 8, 1999, with the support of an alliance between the RPP and the government-recognized section of the Afar-led FRUD.

* Samuel Dexter, U. S. Representative, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Treasury, administered the oath of office to Chief Justice John Marshall

He also never took the oath of office.

All public officials were to swear an oath of loyalty to the monarch as the supreme governor or risk disqualification from office ; the heresy laws were repealed, to avoid a repeat of the persecution of dissenters practised by Mary.

George Washington takes Oath of office of the President of the United States | the oath of office of President of the United States | the President of the United States, April 30, 1789.

At his inauguration, Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States of America on April 30, 1789, on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City.

John Loder, 2nd Baron Wakehurst | The Lord Wakehurst takes the oath of office upon his arrival in Sydney in 1937.

They rejected therefore, as early as 1416, everything that they believed had no basis in the Bible, such as the veneration of saints and images, fasts, superfluous holidays, the oath, intercession for the dead, auricular Confession, indulgences, the sacraments of Confirmation and the Anointing of the Sick ; they admitted laymen and women to the preacher's office, and chose their own priests.

He took the oath of office on a book of constitutional law, instead of the more traditional Bible.

( In 2001, Thomas administered Ashcroft's oath of office as U. S. Attorney General.

* 1631 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.

* 1861 – Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.

Kahane refused to take the standard oath of office and insisted on adding a Biblical verse from Psalms, to indicate that when the national laws and Torah conflict, Torah ( Biblical ) law should have supremacy over the laws of the Knesset.

* 1922 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.

Lyndon B. Johnson taking the presidential oath of office in 1963, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy

An oath of office is an oath or affirmation a person takes before undertaking the duties of an office, usually a position in government or within a religious body, although such oaths are sometimes required of officers of other organizations.

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.

In line with the statement that Nabonidus " entrusted the kingship " to Belshazzar in his absence, there is evidence that Belshazzar's name was used with his father's in oath formulas, that he was able to pass edicts, lease farmlands, and receive the " royal privilege " to eat the food offered to the gods.

Several variants of the oath have been used since 1789 ; the current form, which is also recited by Senators, Representatives and other government officers, has been used since 1884:

In a 1989 survey of 126 US medical schools, only three reported usage of the original oath, while thirty-three used the Declaration of Geneva, sixty-seven used a modified Hippocratic oath, four used the Prayer of Maimonides, one used a covenant, eight used another oath, one used an unknown oath, and two did not use any kind of oath.

The Federals is making everybody take the oath of loyalty around these parts too '', he crowed.

Among the most noted recent works, there is the writer, the swallows of Kabul and the attack of Yasmina Khadra, the oath of barbarians of Boualem Sansal, memory of the flesh of Ahlam Mosteghanemi and the last novel by Assia Djebar nowhere in my father's House.

At Eretria the identity of an excavated 7th and 6th century temple to Apollo Daphnephoros, " Apollo, laurel-bearer ", or " carrying off Daphne ", a " place where the citizens are to take the oath ", is identified in inscriptions.

An affidavit ( ) is a written sworn statement of fact voluntarily made by an affiant or deponent under an oath or affirmation administered by a person authorized to do so by law.

The name is Medieval Latin for he has declared upon oath.

An affidavit is a type of verified statement or showing, or in other words, it contains a verification, meaning it is under oath or penalty of perjury, and this serves as evidence to its veracity and is required for court proceedings.

Affidavits are made in a similar way as to England and Wales, although " make oath " is sometimes omitted.

" In practical terms, the most important law in the code may well be the very first: " We enjoin, what is most necessary, that each man keep carefully his oath and his pledge ," which expresses a fundamental tenet of Anglo-Saxon law.

That is to say, the mass meeting of all citizens lost some ground to gatherings of a thousand or so which were under oath, and with more time to focus on just one matter ( though never more than a day ).

The consul administering the oath is forced to go on his knees, symbolising Alphonse's lordship and the town's loyalty.

By contrast, while defendants in most civil law systems can be compelled to give a statement, this statement is not subject to cross-examination by the prosecutor and not given under oath.

Abjuration is the solemn repudiation, abandonment, or renunciation by or upon oath, often the renunciation of citizenship or some other right or privilege.

The casuist might conclude that a person is wrong to lie in legal testimony under oath, but might argue that lying actually is the best moral choice if the lie saves a life.

The figure in the middle is raising his right arm making the oath that they will never disband until they have reached their goal of creating a " constitution of the realm fixed upon solid foundations.

To alter the pronunciation or spelling of a taboo word ( such as a swear word ) to form a euphemism is known as taboo deformation, or " minced oath ".

It is called mistletoe, and it seemed too young for me to demand its oath.

Sir Isaac Isaacs and Sir Zelman Cowen were Jewish ; Bill Hayden is an avowed atheist and he made an affirmation rather than swear an oath at the beginning of his commission ; the remaining Governors-General have been at least nominally Christian.

The oath of King Ferdinand, known as the " Catholic Monarch " on June 30, 1476 is depicted in a painting by Francisco de Mendieta popularly known as El besamanos (" The Royal audience ").