Delaware Code

10 Del. C. § 5322 (2026)

Uplifted hand

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A person may be permitted to swear with the uplifted hand; that is to say, a person shall lift up his or her right hand and swear by the ever living God, the searcher of all hearts, that etc., and at the end of the oath shall say, “as I shall answer to God at the Great Day.”

Code 1852, §  2360;  Code 1915, §  4247;  Code 1935, §  4717;  10 Del. C. 1953, §  5322;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1