Effective – 28 Aug 1988 492.010. Officers and notary public authorized to administer oaths. — Every court and judge, justice and clerk thereof, notaries public, certified court reporters and certified shorthand reporters, shall respectively have power to administer oaths and affirmations to witnesses and others concerning any thing or proceeding pending* before them, respectively, and […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 492.020. Oaths required to be taken before particular officer may be taken before others, when. — Whenever any oath or affirmation is required by law to be taken before a particular court or officer, the same may be done before any other court or officer empowered to administer oaths, unless […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 492.030. Parties may affirm, when. — Every person who shall declare that he has conscientious scruples against taking an oath or swearing in any form shall be permitted to make his solemn declaration or affirmation in the following form: “You do solemnly declare and affirm”, etc., concluding with the words […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 492.040. Officer shall adopt mode most binding on conscience, when. — Whenever the court or officer by whom any person is about to be sworn shall be satisfied that such person has any peculiar mode of swearing connected with or in addition to the usual form of administering oaths, which […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 492.050. Parties to be sworn according to the ceremonies of their religion. — Every person, believing in any other than the Christian religion, shall be sworn according to the peculiar ceremonies of his religion, if there be any such ceremonies. ——– (RSMo 1939 § 1883) Prior revisions: 1929 § 1719; […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 492.060. Persons deemed to have been lawfully sworn, when. — In all cases in which an oath or affirmation is required or authorized by law, every person swearing, affirming or declaring, in whatever form, shall be deemed to have been lawfully sworn, and to be guilty of perjury for corruptly […]
Effective – 12 Jun 1991 492.070. Oaths, affirmations, depositions of persons in military service, who may take — form — validation of those previously taken. — 1. Any commissioned officer, other than a commissioned warrant officer, of any of the Armed Forces of the United States, whether or not on active duty, may administer oaths […]
