Court of Chancery (Ireland) Act, 1823

Masters’ clerks shall take the oath hereby prescribed.

48. Every such clerk of any master in Chancery, before he shall act as such in the examination of any witness, shall take the following oath before the master by whom he shall be appointed, or before any other master of the said court:

‘I A.B. do swear, that I will, according to the best of my skill and knowledge, truly and faithfully execute and exercise the office of master’s clerk and examiner in the office of C.D. esquire, one of the masters of his Majesty’s High Court of Chancery in Ireland, so long as I shall continue to hold the said office; and that I will well and faithfully preserve and keep all such records, interrogatories, depositions, deeds, documents, and instruments whatsoever, wherewith I shall be intrusted, or whereto I shall have access under or by virtue of my said office; and that I will not publish, disclose, or make known to any person whatsoever, the particulars, purport, or contents of any deposition or depositions taken, copied, or read by me in the execution of my said office, or to which I shall have access thereby, until publication thereof respectively shall duly pass.

‘So help me GOD.’