Oath

The affirmation or denial of a thing, putting by witness to God, either in himself or in his creatures, as the Academy expresses. It is also said that the oath is "the tacit or express invocation of the name of God, putting him as witness of the certainty of what is declared. I ASSERTORY. He who clearly affirms or denies the truth of a done present or of a thing past. I OF SLANDER. The one that the parties provided when starting a lawsuit to declare that they did not and would not proceed with malice. I OF TELLING THE TRUTH. The usual one nowadays, as a requirement; and by virtue of which is obliged the confessor to manifest everything he knows and understands about the acts personal for which he is being questioned or question. I OF MALICE. That one of the litigants was obliged to lend when the adversary so required, suspicious that the other acted with malice o deception at some point in the lawsuit. The DECISION-MAKING or DEFERRED. The request by one of the parties to the other, obliging itself to abide by what the latter swears, with the object to end their differences in this way. The part which defers to the other, is forced to go through not only the favorable of the confession requested, but also for the harmful. I ES-TIMATORY. This oath, in Law School Roman, it was called in litem, and has currently disappeared from the mayoria of the codes, since it is up to the judge to declare in the sentences, according to the request made in the demand, the amount of the condemns. The INDECISORY. That in which only the statements prejudicial to the sworn or confessing person are accepted as decisive. It is the current one in the confession judicial or acquittal of positions. The EXTENSION. Supletorio is used here as a complementary to the experiment, thus being called the oath that the judge defers ex officio o mandate to make one of the parties to complete the experiment.