Abjuration (from Latinabjurare, to forswear), a solemn repudiation or renunciation on oath. In English common law, it signified the oath of a person who had taken sanctuary to leave the realm for ever; this was abolished in the reign of James I.
The Oath at Abjuration, in English history, was a solemn disclaimer, taken by members of parliament, clergy and laymen against the right of the Stuarts to the crown, imposed by laws of William III, George I and George III; but its place has since been taken by the oath of allegiance.
Abjuration (from Latin abjurare, to forswear), a solemn repudiation or renunciation on oath.
In English common law, it signified the oath of a person who had taken sanctuary to leave the realm for ever; this was abolished in the reign of James I.
The Oath at Abjuration, in English history, was a solemn disclaimer, taken by members of parliament, clergy and laymen against the right of the Stuarts to the crown, imposed by laws of William III, George I and George III; but its place has since been taken by the oath of allegiance.
In some cases the abjuration was the only ceremony required; in others abjuration was followed by the imposition of hands or by unction, or both by the laying on of hands and by unction.
After declaring his abjuration to be free from compulsion, fear, or other unworthy motive, he proceeded to anathematize all heresies in general and in particular that sect to which he had belonged, together with its heresiarchs, past, present, and future.
The abjuration demanded of converts in the present discipline of the Church is essentially the same as the above.
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