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I 1 FERENT METHODS OF I bMINISTERING OATH ! IN COURT 1 | itness in a police court must f e truth and nothing bnt the | rrespective of colour or creed, I is not always sworn on the fj § e are different oaths for differ- | eds and different nationalities. s iw, for instance, is sworn on | ntateuch, with his head cov- | He is the only person in the i rho is allowed to wear a hat. 1 e are two forms of administerI oath to a Chinese witness. He | ike his choice. In one form I aks a saucer. When he en- | ;e witness-box he is solemnly | the piece of crockery, which a lediately breaks in some conplace. Then he is addressed ws: "You must tell the truth, Ible truth — the saucer is erackM if you do not tell the truth oul shall be cracked like the Chinese can prefer the blowing a match. Then he is told that me is extinguished, and that ioes not tell the truth, his soul e extinguished like the light. ius is the Chinese sworn. Mohammedan is sworn on the On it he places his right putting the other to his forewhich he brings down to the declaring that by this cerelie is bound to tell the truth. a an atheist refuses to take th he is sworn by declaration. >ite the difference in the oaths e liable to punishment for perf their evidenee is not true.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 58, 30 October 1931, Page 5
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