Rhode Island § 10-13-2 § 10-13-2. Persons not entitled to take oath.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 10-13-2 — § 10-13-2. Persons not entitled to take oath.

Rhode Island § 10-13-2

Title 10Courts and civil procedure–Procedure in particular actions

Ch. 10-13Relief of Poor Debtors

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R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-13-2 (2026).

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§ 10-13-2. Persons not entitled to take oath.
No person who shall be committed on execution awarded against him or her as plaintiff
            in replevin or as defendant in any action on a penal statute or in any action for
            conversion or detention of personal property, or for any malicious injury to the person,
            health or reputation of the plaintiff in such suit, or for seduction, or for any trespass,
            excepting only such as are particularly named in § 10-13-1, shall be deemed to be within the meaning of the provisions of that section or entitled
            to be admitted to take the oath as provided in § 10-13-1.
         

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§ 10-13-2. Persons not entitled to take oath.

No person who shall be committed on execution awarded against him or her as plaintiff in replevin or as defendant in any action on a penal statute or in any action for conversion or detention of personal property, or for any malicious injury to the person, health or reputation of the plaintiff in such suit, or for seduction, or for any trespass, excepting only such as are particularly named in § 10-13-1, shall be deemed to be within the meaning of the provisions of that section or entitled to be admitted to take the oath as provided in § 10-13-1.

Legislative History

G.L. 1896, ch. 260, § 10; G.L. 1909, ch. 326, § 10; G.L. 1923, ch. 377, § 10; G.L. 1938, ch. 563, § 10; G.L. 1956, § 10-13-2; P.L. 1965, ch. 55, § 56; P.L. 1997, ch. 326, § 34.