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What is the name of the oath called that one has to take before testifying in court? Does it have one? RJII 02:15, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
What about the people who refuse to take oaths based on their personal beliefs? Shouldn't this article have information on their views? It should probably include the "swear" vs "affirm" issue. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 199.1.42.30 ( talk • contribs) 12:09, May 24, 2006 (UTC)
Where did most of the information from the 1911 Encyclopedia article go? Was it all deemed untrustworthy? That seems unlikely; right now http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Oath has a lot more information than is here, or apparent in the See also section... -- nae' blis 04:19, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia lacks an article on blood oath (ritual). Perhaps merely a section within the present article would suffice to begin with? __ meco ( talk) 19:19, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps there should be something on who can 'preside' over someone taking an oath (eg. the U.S. Supreme Court Justice at Presidential Inauguration). Does anyone actually have to be present? - 121.208.90.59 ( talk) 07:55, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
If a court orders an oath, then it creates a paradoxical situation. A person can be done for perjury relating a crime they are wrongly accused of and found guilty of. If there is a perception by the accused, that they will be found guilty when they are innocent, they will take the oath and tell a lie (which seems like the truth to the accusers) to avoid punishment relating to the oath, which in turn aids a miscarriage of justice. This added miscarriage of justice not only punishes the wrong person more, but leaves other potential victims of abuse to carry on being abused by the real criminal whom is unpunished. It is on this determination that I decided that a liar cannot be punished; unless it is for reasons not relating to them defending themselves from justice being implemented against them, where that lie causes damage or harm (for instance pretending that a person is not desperate for an ambulance when they are dying)
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.242.201.108 ( talk) 05:12, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Is it a specific of the English language that the meanings "profanity" and "oath" have blended in some words, such as "swear" and "curse"? Or is this common across languages? Please add this info if you have it! -- 92.229.155.131 ( talk) 18:49, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
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From WP:ERA: "Use either the BC–AD or the BCE–CE notation consistently within the same article. Exception: do not change direct quotations." Editor2020 ( talk) 20:05, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
Are there not oaths in non-western/non-Islamic cultures as well? This article seems to be too Eurocentric. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:640:4000:A875:15E1:1196:EFBC:D018 ( talk) 13:57, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
The Christian part of this is entirely about people who do not swear oaths, which should in reality take up about 0.1% of the section. Where is the information about how Christian oath-taking developed from Roman times, the difference between Catholic and Protestant oath-taking, or the difference between oath-taking in civil court and in ecclesiastical court? Did some zealot delete all this, or did everyone assume that the modern American USA USA USA way of swearing oaths is so “obvious” and “not needing explanation” (no, wrong) that no historical or international perspective was thought necessary? Goddammit (in case you wanted an actual oath). 24.76.103.169 ( talk) 00:02, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi,
I think perhaps the "germanic tradition" section needs some more information than unsourced fantasies by random "The Vikings"-fans ...
The germanic legal system was not "evidence-driven", it mainly consisted of claims and counter-claims, oaths whose reliability were bolstered by the character wintnesses for the swearer - a good reason to have a lot of friends. The tradition goes back to at least viking times, and is, in fact, continued to this very day.
I'm not a native EN speaker (as you will see from the on-the-spot translations below), and will not try to formulate any passage on this, but I have gathered a motley clutch of sources for anyone willing to wring a line or two out of them. Here goes:
Det norske folks historie, P.A. Much, Christiania 1855, p. 1005, 1006:
Magnus Lagabøtes Landslov, § 27,1 :
Kjersti Selberg
Eldre norske rettskilder ("Ancient Norwegian Legal Sources")
UiO Universitetsbiblioteket
Juridisk bibliotek Oslo 2013
ISSN 1893-9686 (online)
ISBN 978-82-8037-030-3 (online)
Editor: Randi Halveg Iversby
Så lenge skyld ikke var bevist, kunne den anklagede si seg fri ved nektingsed.
Mededsmenn var granner som gikk god for den anklagede.
Dersom disse sverget falsk, var straffen streng.
Nektingseden var regulert i Landsloven
og ble tross motstand benyttet helt frem til Kong Christian Vs Norske lov av 1687."
As long as guilt was not proven, the accused could free himself by an oath of denial.
Conjuratores were neighbors which guaranteed for the accused.
If any of them swore falsely, the punishment was severe.
The oath of denial was regulated by the Landslov ("Law of the realm"),
and despite opposition, it was used until king Christian V's Laws of Norway of 1687."
GUNNERIA 81, 2017
Frostatinget i et historisk lys ("The Frosta Thing in a historical light")
Ed. Ole Risbøl
(Gunneria is a periodical published by the NTNU University Museum at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. )
https://www.ntnu.no/documents/10476/66990/Gunneria81.pdf, p. 13:
T 88.91.200.88 ( talk) 05:33, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
In my opinion, text needs adding to 2 sub-headings in the article as they look empty with just a hyperlink underneath them. Xboxsponge15 ( talk) 15:07, 25 December 2019 (UTC)