This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: …refuse, doit succomber dans sa demande ou dans son excpptiou. Section V. OF OATHS. Art. 1357. A judicial oath is of two kinds: 1. The oath which one party administers to the other, so as to make the issue of the action depend thereupon; this is called a decisive oath; 2. The oath which is administered ex officio by the judge to one or other of the parties. 1. Of the decisive oath. Art. 1358. The decisive oath may be administered with respect to any species of issue. Art. 1359. It can only be administered in regard to a matter which is within the personal knowledge of the party to whom it is administered. Art. 1360. It may be administered at any stage of the proceeding, even although there exists no commencement of proof of the claim or of the defence in respect of which it is applied for. Art. 1361. The party to whom the oath is administered who declines to take it, or to re-administer it to his adversary, or the adversary to whom it has been re-administered, who declines to take it, shall fail in his claim or in his defence. Art. 1362. Le serment ne peut etre refere quand le fait qui en est l'objet n'est point celui des deux parties, mais est purement personnel a celui auquel le serment avait ete defere. Art. 1363. Lorsque le serment defere ou refere a ete fait, l'adversaire n'est point recevable a en prouver la faussete. Art. 1364. La partie qui a defere ou refere le serment, ne peut plus se retracter lorsque l'adversaire a declare qu'il est pret a faire ce serment. Art. 1365. Le serment fait ne forme preuve qu'au profit de celui qui l'a defere ou contre lui, et au profit de ses h&…