Oath Suppletory
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In civil and ecclesiastical law. An oath required by the judge from either party in a cause, upon ' half proof already made, which, being joined to half proof, supplies the evidence required to enable the judge to pass upon the subject.
See Strange, 80; 3 Bl. Comm. 270.