Definition of Decisive Oath

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Decisive oath
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    (Civil Law) An oath upon which the cause rested where a party elected to leave the issue to the oath of his adversary.

  • Decisive Oath
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In the civll law. Where one of the parties to a suit, not being able to prove his charge, offered to refer the decision of the cause to the oath of his adversary, which the adversary was hound to accept or tender the same proposui back again, otherwise the whole was taken as confessed by him. Cod. 4, 1, 12.