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Case No. 15,218.
    UNITED STATES v. GLOVER.
    [4 Cranch, C. C. 190.]
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Dec. Term, 1831.
    Perjury—Promissory Oath.
    A promissory oath cannot be the subject of an indictment for perjury.
    
      Indictment for perjury, upon the insolvent’s oath that he would “deliver up, convey, and transfer all his property,” &c„ but •he did not deliver up a promissory note which he had obtained after having made ■oath to his scnedule, and before his oath made before the judge.
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.)
    
   THE COURT

(AIORSELL. Circuit Judge, absent),

at the request of Mr. Wallaeh and Mr. Dandridge, for the defendant, instructed the jury that a promissory oath could not be the subject of a prosecution for perjury.