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The Albanian word besa is an Indo-European cognate and shares similarities with the Classical Latin word fides.In Late Antiquity and the Medieval period, Latin fides took on the Christian meaning of 'faith' or '(religious) belief,' a sense that persists in modern Romance languages and was borrowed into Albanian as feja.
Oath of allegiance, an oath whereby a subject or citizen acknowledges a duty of allegiance and swears loyalty to monarch or country. Oath of citizenship, an oath taken by immigrants that officially naturalizes immigrants into citizens. Oath of office, an oath or affirmation a person takes before undertaking the duties of an office.
Mr. Iljas Bej Vrioni, the Delegate of Berat, proposes to the High Council Mr. Emzot Bumçi, Aqif P. Elbasani, Abdi B. Toptani and Dr. Turtulli, who are approved with a common voice and clapping hands. It was decided that Mr. Emzot Bumçi and Dr. Turtulli would remain in Paris and the other two were to oversee the work of the High Council.
The custom of oath books in courts of law was imported into the Colonial United States from English common law, by which time the procedure usually involved the swearer kissing the book, although by 1904 the American legal scholar John Henry Wigmore would remark that "custom of kissing the Book is now coming to be generally recognized as both repulsive and unsanitary; celluloid covers are ...
Indeed, in Albanian epics there are on the one hand female characters who play an active role in the quest and the decisions that affect the whole tribe, on the other hand those who undergo a masculinization process as a condition to be able to participate actively in the fights according to the principles of the Kanun, the Albanian traditional ...
Elisabeth Kopp's oath of office after her election to the Swiss Federal Council in 1984. The Schwurhand (German pronunciation: [ˈʃvuːɐ̯hant], "swear-hand"; Dutch: spreekgebaar) is a heraldic charge depicting the hand gesture that is used in Germanic Europe and neighbouring countries, when swearing an oath in court, in office, or in swearing-in.
The Zogist salute (Albanian: Përshëndetja zogiste) is an Albanian nationalist military salute since used by civilians in other countries. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The salute is a gesture whereby the right hand is placed over the heart, with the palm facing downwards.
Lyndon B. Johnson taking the American presidential oath of office in 1963, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. An oath of office is an oath or affirmation a person takes before assuming the duties of an office, usually a position in government or within a religious body, although such oaths are sometimes required of officers of other organizations.