Legal Definition and Related Resources of Swear

To put on oath; to take an oath; to administer an oath. To call upon God to witness what is averred as truth . Asher v Sizmore, (Ky.)261 S. W.2d665. To invoke the vengeance of God or a renunciation of his favor in the event of falsehood. Atwood v state , 146 Miss. 662, 111 So. 865.

To take an oath administered by some officer duly empowered. See Affirmation; Oath. To use such profane language as is forbidden by law. This is generally punished by statutory provinces in the several states. See Profaneness.

verb

• adjure
• affirm
• allege under oath
• assert as true
• assure
• authenticate
• aver
• avow
• bear witness
• bind oneself by oath
• certify
• confirm
• declare
• declare solemnly
• declare true
• give a promise
• give evidence
• give one’s word
• guarantee
• iurare
• iureiurando adfirmare
• maintain under oath
• promise
• put one’s trust in
• state
• state under oath
• utter an oatn
• vouch
• vow Associated Concepts: false swearing
• public swearing foreign phrases: Injudiciononcrediturnisijuratis
• ln a court of justice no one is given credence who is not sworn

To Take An Oath.

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Etimology of Swear

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Old English swerian “take an oath” (class VI strong verb; past tense swor, past participle sworen), from Proto-Germanic *swarjan-, (source also of Old Saxon swerian, Old Frisian swera, Old Norse sverja, Danish sverge, Middle Dutch swaren, Old High German swerien, German schwören, Gothic swaren “to swear”), from PIE root *swer- (1) “to speak, talk, say” (source also of Old Church Slavonic svara “quarrel,” Oscan sverrunei “to the speaker”). Also related to the second element in answer. The secondary sense of “use bad language” (early 15c.) developed from the notion of “invoke sacred names.” Swear off “desist as with a vow” is from 1898. Swear in “install in office by administration of an oath” is from 1700 in modern use, echoing Old English.