Answer by user3851 for What does the witness oath mean in legal situations?
Bronston v. United States, 409 U.S. 352 (1973) interpreted the federal perjury statute (18 USC §1621) in the US.In this case, the following exchange happened in a bankruptcy hearing:"Q. Do you have any...
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It also means, I believe, that if you are found to have lied or misled the court 'under oath' then you can be charged with perjury. Thus being put under oath is a real incentive to not lie or obscure...
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I'm sorry to deflate what is clearly a very philosophically interesting question, but the law is straightforward here.The truth, essentially, is the set of facts that you believe to be true.Yes.It...
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I'm in NSW, Australia but our witness oath is apparently fairly standard across English-based legal systems. It looks like this generic example from wikipedia:Oath: I swear that the evidence that I...
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