# Oxford University Act 1854, Section 24: Certain oaths illegal.


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 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/17-18/81/section/24 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/oxford-university-act-1854/section-24
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