The Affirmations (Scotland) Act 1865
WHEREAS Doubts have arisen whether the Provisions of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth of Victoria, Chapter Twenty-five, intituled An Act to allow Affirmations or Declarations to be made instead of Oaths in certain Cases in Scotland, be applicable to all Courts of Civil Judicature, and to all Civil Proceedings: And whereas the Relief afforded by that Act to Persons refusing or being unwilling from conscientious Motives to be sworn in Courts of Civil Judicature has since been extended to all Court...