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prescribed for exactly this kind of conduct.
Lord Atkinson, Lord Gorell, and Lord
Shaw read judgments to the same effect.
(Reported
The Times Law Reports,
Vol.
xxvi., p. 134).
Oaths Act, 1909.
AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW AS TO OATHS.
[25th November, 1909.]
BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent
of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons,
in
this
present
Parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same,
as follows :—
1. This Act may be cited for all purposes
as the Oaths Act, 1909 ; and the Oaths Act,
1888, and this Act may be cited together as
the Oaths Acts, 1888 and 1909.
2.—(1) Any oath may be administered and
taken in the form and manner following :—
The person taking the oath shall hold the
New Testament, or, in the case of a
Jew, the Old Testament, in his uplifted
hand, and shall say or repeat after the
officer administering
the oath
the
words "I swear by Almighty God
that
.
.
.
.
.", followed by the
words of the oath prescribed by law.
(2) The officer shall (unless the person about
to take the oath voluntarily objects thereto,
or is physically incapable of so taking the
oath) administer the oath in the form and
manner aforesaid without question :
Provided that, in the case of a person who
is neither a Christian nor a Jew, the oath
shall be administered in any manner which is
now lawful.
3. In this Act the word ." officer " shall
mean and include any and every person duly
authorised to administer oaths.
4.—(1) This Act shall come into operation
on the first day of January nineteen hundred
and ten.
(2) This Act shall not apply to Scotland.
Irish Land Commission.
THE following Sittings of the Court of the
Land Commission for hearing Appeals have
been provisionally arranged :—
Sligo, January 12th.—Co. Sligo and Co.
Leitrim (part of).
Carrick-on-Shannon,
January
13th.—Cos.
Leitrim and Roscommon (parts of).
Dublin, January 20th.—Leinster (part of).
Limerick. January 27th.—Co. Limerick and
Cos. Clare and Tipperary (parts of).
Castlebar, February 1st.—Co. Mayo.
Castlerea, February 3rd.—Co. Roscommon
(part of).
Dublin, February 9th.—Leinster (part of).
Killarney, February 15th.—Cos. Kerry and
Cork (parts of).
Dublin, February 24th.—Leinster (part of).
Londonderry, March 1st.—Co. Londonderry
and Co. Donegal (part of).
Strabane, March 2nd.—Cos. Donegal and
Tyrone (parts of).
Omagh, March 3rd.—Co. Tyrone (part of).
Dublin, March 10th.—Leinster (part of).
Galway, March 15th.—Co. Galway.
Hilary Sittings Lectures,
PROFESSOR QUIRKE will deliver lectures to
the Senior Class upon the subjects of Real
Property, Equity, and Conveyancing, on the
following dates in Hilary Sittings, 1910 :—
January llth, 14th, 18th, 21st, 25th, 28th.
February 1st, 4th, 8th, llth, 15th, 18th.
PROFESSOR SHARPE will deliver lectures to
the Junior Class upon Common Law, on the
following dates in Hilary Sittings, 1910 :—
January 13th, 17th, 20th, 24th, 27th, 31st.
February 3rd, 7th, 10th, 14th, 17th, 21st.
The lectures to both classes will be delivered
at 4 p.m. in the Lecture Theatre of the
Society at the Four Courts.
Solicitors' Benevolent Association.
December 1st.
A meeting of the Directors was held on
this day. The Secretary reported having
received £33 12s.
in annual subscriptions
since the previous meeting, and a donation
of.£l from the Trustees of Arnott Bequest
Fund.
Grants
amounting
to £130 were
made to sixteen applicants for relief.
December 8th.
A meeting of the Directors was held on
this day.
The Secretary reported having
received £30 9s. in annual subscriptions since
last meeting, and a donation of £5 5s. from