Jurare
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
To swear; to take an oath. JURARE EST DEUM IN TESTEM VOcare, et est actus divinj cultus. To swear is to call God to witness, and is an act of religion.
8 Inst. 165. See 3 Bouv. Inst. 3180, note; 1 Benth. Jud. Ev. 376, 371, note.