Q. A and B entered into an agreement and bound themselves by a severe oath, to help each other against murderers and informers. A failed to carry out the terms of the agreement. Does A's breaking of the agreement absolve B from his oath and release him from his obligations to A? A. Three laymen may absolve B from his oath on the ground that it was his expectation, at the time he bound himself to the terms of the agreement, that A would carry out his part of the obligation. SOURCES: Pr. 841.