# Cambridge University Act 1856, Section 22: Certain oaths deemed illegal, and not to be administered.


Every oath directly or indirectly binding the juror—
Not to disclose any matter or thing relating to his college, although required so to do by lawful authority;
To resist or not concur in any change in the statutes of the University or college;
To do or forbear from doing anything the doing or the not doing of which would tend to any such concealment, resistance, or non-concurrence:
shall from the time of the passing of this Act be an illegal oath in the said University and the colleges thereof; and no such oath shall hereafter be administered or taken.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/19-20/88/section/22 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/cambridge-university-act-1856/section-22
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