Case ID: us_2/html/0192-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By the Court", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Vaughan versus Blanchard.
    
      HEATLY offered to read the return, on a commission to examine witnesses, in which it was certified, that the witnesses were duly sworn by a Justice of the Peace, and examined by the commissioners. Serjeant, objected, that the commissioners themselves should have administered the oath ; or that if administered by a Justice of the Peace, he should himself have certified the fact. But,
   By the Court

:—It is not necessary that the commissioners should administer the oath themselves; and it is to be presumed, that it was administered in their presence.