Answer by Anonymous Coward for Adapt the oath of truth to a reasonable version?
You are suffering a serious UIX1 problem.It is common in many fields to use expressions which have a different meaning than in common language. In my field of expertise "alpha" is not a Greek letter...
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It's the whole truth of your experienceIf I were to say "I saw John going into the store", in reality it may have been someone else, or they may have simply walked past the store (if you saw them from...
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Liability for perjury is governed by the language of the applicable perjury statute and the related case law, not by the language of the oath itself. The situation in the case of contempt of court is...
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I think you should take "the whole truth" as simply short for "all the truth known to the witness, within the limits of the rules of evidence as applied by the judge." and take "nothing but the truth"...
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I find the oathDo you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?an almost absurd request. It is common-sense that nobody knows the whole truth about anything, so how could one...
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