Repere istorice şi moderne ale jurământului în calitate de entitate juridică [Articol]

Abstract

In this article, the author approaches a number of historical and modern indexes of oath, as legal entity. Approached from the historical point of view, the oath went through the history of civilizations that have succeeded over time without significant change, preserved in all historical eras and in all cultures known to anthropology, ethnology and social psychology researchers, as well as lawyers interested in the history of law. In Moldova, at present, the professional oath is taken by over twenty different categories of employees or future professionals, most of them civil servants and persons assimilated to civil servants. When approached from the religious point of view, which in fact, refers to the essence of the absolute majority of the oath formula before the twentieth century, the author believes that the oath is a social life phenomenon that involves faith in the judgment day.