[3331 whencefoever contrac`fed, whether by Covenant, or by Vow, or by bare Promife, or by meer Of lice (or Dun) remaineth valid, and puts a bar to every following contrary a61.--- (Read /rd. 4, § I II2,13,14,I . what he faith for the obligation, r, Offl:ontaneous Oaths; 2. Of Oaths caufed by fraud ; 3. Or by fear extorted 4, Even ofOaths to Robbers.) P. I I0. 3. He that taketh an Oath impofed by one that had no juft authority, but not otherwife vicious, is bound toperform what he fwore. (Read p. 175, &c. what he faithat large againft equivocation, ftretching refervations, as opening the door to all lying and perjury, and fruftrating the end ofOaths.) P. 195. Of the latitude and extent of an Oath, How jar the fenfe is to be meafured by the(cope * : As when the Caufe * As of Affent of the Oath was particular, but and c P i Life. the of the the words are general, e. g. The Liturgy, &c. Popes Uft,rpation was the Caufe of the Oath of the Kings Supremacy : --- But the words of the Oath fo affert the Kings Supremacy, as exclude all others as well as the Pope, from ex- ercifing fupreme Power in this Kingdom : Anfww. Such an Oath obl.gei h as to the words themfelves in their utmofi latitude : The Realon is, becaufe the intention of the Law, though made on a par- ticular occafion, is general, to hinder all incom- modities of the fame kind for the future.---As Lawyers fetch not the fèrife of Laws from the Proem, but from the body of the Statute, fo we muft judge of the Tuff interpretation ofan Oath, not by the promild recognition, or other pre- face, but by the body ofthe Oath it felf. P. 208,
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