Legal Definition and Related Resources of Kissing the Book
The act of kissing the Bible or Testament, often performed in taking an oath, especially an oath of office administered to one qualifying for high office, but not essential to the validity of any oath.
Meaning of Kissing the book
A ceremony used in taking the corporal oath; the object being, as the canonists say, to denote the assent of the witness to the oath in the form it is imposed. The witness kisses either the whole Bible, or some portion of it; or a cross, in some countries. See the ceremony explained in Oughton’s Ordo, tit. Ixxx.; Consitt. Courts pt. 3, sec. 1, §3; Junkin, Oath, 173, 180; 2 Poth. Obi. (Evans Ed.) 234.
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| Legal Maxims | Maxims are established principles that jurists use as interpretive tools, invoked more frequently in international law |
| Legal Answers (Q&A) | A community-driven knowledge creation process, of enduring value to a broad audience |
| Related topics | Kissing The Book in the World Encyclopedia of Law |
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