• A pauper's oath is a sworn statement or oath by a person of being completely destitute or a pauper, without much money or property. A person without the...
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    an office. Juror's oath, an oath taken by jurors at the beginning of jury selection or trial Pauper's oath, a sworn statement or oath by a person that he...
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  • paroled on August 15, 1945, after four years in prison, and took a pauper's oath to avoid paying the $20,000 fine (equivalent to $338,000 in 2023). After...
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    introduced free textbooks for all students, not just those who had taken a pauper's oath. He instituted a competitive examination for hiring teachers, instead...
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  • pro se petitioners, but the two concepts are separate and distinct. Pauper's oath Black, Henry Campbell; Nolan, Joseph R.; Nolan-Haley, Jacqueline M....
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    introduced free textbooks for all students, not just those who had taken a pauper's oath. He instituted a competitive examination for hiring teachers, instead...
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  • exceeding six months. Whites could avoid the code's penalty by swearing a pauper's oath. In the case of blacks, however: "the duty of the sheriff of the proper...
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    have their children educated without paying tuition had to swear a pauper's oath. Stevens opened his extensive private library to the public and gave...
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    issues of oaths and the paying of tithes. The prologue, Holy Poverty, establishes the two interlocutors and their role in the text. Pauper is portrayed...
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  • Catholics (Pauperes Catholici) were an early Catholic mendicant order, organized in 1208 and of short duration. Recruits were taken from the Pauperes Lugdunenses...
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  • Detective Weekly 9 Wanted! Mark Osborne (John W. Bobin) Detective Weekly 10 Pauper's Island Gilbert Chester (H. H. C. Gibbons) Detective Weekly 11 The Hollow...
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  • ("faith"), originating at least from Medieval Latin to denote a statement under oath. age quod agis do what you do i.e., "do what you are doing," or "do well...
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  • March One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. (Repealed by Promissory Oaths Act 1871) Insolvent Debtors (India) Act 1846 (repealed) 9 & 10 Vict. c....
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    Annihilation, From the Vault: Twenty, Ixalan, Kaladesh, Modern Masters 2017, Oath of the Gatewatch, and Shadows Over Innistrad, in addition to being the lead...
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  • the emphasis placed on the oath of poverty, judges were willing to accommodate a prisoner's circumstances to satisfy that oath, such as using the testimony...
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    crusading movement became a leading element of medieval life. A crusader oath could be fulfilled with a cash payment beginning in 1213, which gave rise...
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    to Parliament. Prior to this, distinguished Jews had declined to take the oath "on the true faith of a Christian" and having not been sworn in as required...
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  • affidavit, where the party making the affirmation signs the oath, and the information on whom the oath was sworn before is placed. juris privati of private right...
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    musicians were present. The common belief that Mozart was buried in a pauper's grave is without foundation. The "common grave" referred to above is a...
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    tells him that he killed Robinson while drunk. Tom and Huck swear a blood oath not to tell anyone about the murder, fearing that Injun Joe will find out...
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    other hand, in 1502, the Aragonese Corts gathered in Zaragoza and pledged an oath to Joanna as heiress-presumptive, but Alonso de Aragón, Archbishop of Zaragoza...
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  • families, chose a distinctive form of religious life, refrained from lies, oaths and lawsuits, were satisfied with plain clothing, and argued for the Catholic...
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  • say "Tough luck, Charlie" if he asks her for help. She agrees and takes an oath so that she can no longer help her master. The promise is ill-timed as Tony...
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  • "Little Girl in the Big Ten", Pommelhorst decides to fail Lisa because of an oath she took on Xena but allows her to make it up by taking private lessons....
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    compassion. The Nightingale Pledge is a modified version of the Hippocratic Oath which nurses in the United States recite at their pinning ceremony at the...
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  • neglected to take out their Annual Certificates. (Repealed by Promissory Oaths Act 1871) Smugglers' Families Act 1830 (repealed) 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4...
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    those still living; in no hurry to meet him, they were reluctant to swear oaths in his name, and averted their faces when sacrificing to him. Since to many...
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  • (1944) The Drifter (1944) Rustlers' Hideout (1944) Wild Horse Phantom (1944) Oath of Vengeance (1944) His Brother's Ghost (1945) Thundering Gun Slingers (1945)...
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  • Tidal Harbour and Railway Company; and for other Purposes. Giustiniani's Oath Act 1857 20 & 21 Vict. c. 8 26 June 1857 An Act for authorizing Maria Cecilia...
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    the service, the ushers carried him in a portable chair. The coronation oath had been amended to reflect the Reformation; mention of the privileges of...
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