Faith
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
In Scotch law
A solemn pledge; an oath. " To make faith " is to swear with the right hand uplifted, that one will declare the truth.
1 Forbes* Inst. part 4, p. 235.
This phrase seems to be the literal translation of affidare, (q. v.)