Corporal

[Lat. corporalis, corporale, from corpus, q. v.] Bodily; personal. Corporal oath. [Lat. corporale sacramentum.] An oath taken by laying hand on the gospels, as by actual contact of the person.

3 Inst. c. 74.

Cowell, voc. Oath. Tacto per se sancto evangelio; having personally touched the holy gospel.

Cro. Eliz. 105.

The oath of proctors and advocates in the English consistory courts is in the following words: Ego A. B. ad ista sancta Dei evangelia per me corporaliter tacta juro, quod, &c.; I, A. B., on these holy gospels of God, by me corporally touched, do swear, that, &c. Hallifax Anal. Appendix, No. vi.