Whoever, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered... Albany Law Journal - Page 2381884Full view - About this book
| United States. Department of the Interior - 1887 - 748 pages
...charge or receive, directly or indirectly, any compensation for administering such oath. SEC. 5392. Every person who, having taken an oath before a competent...person, in any case in which a law of the United States anthorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, or... | |
| United States. Department of the Interior - 1887 - 750 pages
...charge or receive, direct!y or indirectly, any compensation for administering such oath. SEC. 5392. Every person who, having taken an oath before a competent...officer, or person, in any case in which a law of tho United States anthorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify, declare, depose, or... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1890 - 828 pages
...318, 24 Stat. 445. Congress has also enacted that every person, having taken an oath to testify truly, "before a competent tribunal, officer or person, in...United States authorizes an oath to be administered," who wilfully and contrary to such oaths states any material matter which he does not believe to be... | |
| Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1892 - 956 pages
...the United States, the principal provision, supplemented by some others of minor importance,5 is : " Every person who, having taken an oath before a competent...testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by him 1 C. v. Powell, 2 Met. Ky. 10, 12, opin- 660. And see Pipes v. & 26 Tex. Ap. ion by Duvall, J. 318.... | |
| 1893 - 1254 pages
...falsely, to prosecute him to the full extent of the law : [Titlo LXX.— Crimes.— Ch. 4] SBC. 6392. Every person who, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or r>erson in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1894 - 910 pages
...as the statute does not authorize any such contest, it cannot be said that the oath was taken in a "case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered." If such a contest before the local land officers is not in terms provided for, it is certainly recognized... | |
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