The oath of abjuration was an oath which by an English act passed in 1701 had to be taken by all holders of public offices, clergymen, teachers, members of the universities, and lawyers, adjuring and renouncing the exiled Stuarts. It was superseded in 1858 by a more comprehensive oath, declaring allegiance to the present royal family. Abjuration of the realm was an oath that a person guilty of felony, and who had taken sanctuary, might take to go into exile, and not return on pain of death. Research Oath of Abjuration
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