What is AFFIRMATION? Definition of AFFIRMATION in Black's Law Dictionary
In practice, a solemn and for- mal declaration or asseveration that an affidavit is true, that the witness will tell the truth, etc., this being substituted for an oath in certain cases.
A solemn religious asseveration in the nature of an oath. 1 Greenl.Ev. § 371.
Quakers, as a class, and other persons who have consci- entious scruples against taking an oath, are allowed to make affirmation in any mode which they may declare to be binding upon their consciences, in confirmation of the truth of testimony which they are about to give. 1 Atk. 21, 46; Cowp. 340, 389; 1 Leach Cr.Cas. 64; 1 Ry. & M. 77.
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