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false swearing : the making of false statements under oath or affirmation in a setting other than a judicial proceeding ;also : the crime of false swearing compare perjury ...
False swearing
False swearing. See PERJURY....
forswear
forswear -swore [-swōr] -sworn [-swōrn] -swear·ing vt 1 : to reject, renounce, or deny under oath 2 : to renounce earnestly vi : to swear falsely : commit false swearing ...
perjury
perjury pl: -ries [Anglo-French perjurie parjurie, from Latin perjurium, from perjurus deliberately giving false testimony, from per- detrimental to + jur- jus law] : the act or crime of knowingly making a false statement (as about a material matter) while under oath or bound by an affirmation or other officially prescribed declaration that what one says, writes, or claims is true compare false swearing ...
Perjury
False swearing...
Tichborne case
Tichborne case. A very celebrated case in which one Arthur Orton, for falsely swearing in 1867 and afterwards that he was Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne, who had been drowned at sea in 1854, was sentenced in 1873 to fourteen years' penal servitude-being seven years (the maximum sentence for perjury) for each of two perjuries. See Best on Evidence, 10th Edn., s. 517 B, where an extract from Orton's confession, sworn before a commissioner for oaths, is given; Article in Supplement to Dictionary of Biography, tit. 'Orton'; Famous Trials of the Century (19th), by J.B. Atlay, and other authorities referred to in Best on Evidence, latest book....
Oath
Oath [fr. ath, Sax.], an appeal to God to witness the truth of a statement. It is called a corporal oath, where a witness, when he swears, places his right hand on the Holy Evangelists.The Christian religion, though it prohibits swearing, excepts oaths required by legal authority (Art. Ch. of Engl. xxxix.). All who believe in a God, the avenger of falsehood, have always been admitted to give evidence, but the old rule was, that all witnesses must take an oath of some kind. Very gradually, however, the legislature has relaxed this rule, and the privilege of affirming (see AFFIRMATION) instead of taking an oath has now been universally granted by the (English) Oaths Act, 1888, by which--Every person upon objection to being sworn, and stating, as the ground of such objection, either that he has no religious belief, or that the taking of an oath is contrary to his religious belief, shall be permitted to make his solemn affirmation instead of taking an oath in all places and for all purpose...
Perjury
Perjury, telling lie in a court, Swaran Singh v. State of Punjab, (2005) 5 SCC 668. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Ch 26]The offence committed when a lawful oath or affirmation (see OATHS and AFFIRATION) is administered and the witness swears or affirms falsely in a matter material to the issue.The law on this subject is now contained in the (English) Perjury Act, 1911, 'an Act to consolidate and simplify the law relating to perjury and kindred offences'; it repeals the whole of the Acts 5 Eliz. c. 9 and 2 Geo. , c. 25 [the (English) Perjury Act, 1728] and portions of one hundred and thirty other statutes. The Act may be briefly summarised as follows: If any person lawfully sworn as a witness or as an interpreter in a 'judicial proceed-ing' wilfully makes a statement material in that proceeding, which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true, he will be guilty of perjury and liable to penal servitude for not exceeding seven years, or imprisonment with or without hard labo...
Falsi crimen
Falsi crimen, fraudulent subornation or conceal-ment, with design to darken or hide the truth, and make things appear otherwise than they are. It is committed:-(1) By words, as when a witness swears falsely; (2) by writing, as when a person antedates a contract; (3) by deed, as selling by false weights and measures....
Forswearer
One who rejects of renounces upon oath one who swears a false oath...
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