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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)...
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perjury
perjury pl: -ries [Anglo-French perjurie parjurie, from Latin perjurium, from perjurus deliberately giving false testimony, from per- detrimental to + jur- jus law]
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Perjurious
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Perjury
False swearing
Perjured
Guilty of perjury having sworn falsely forsworn
Sessions of the peace
Sessions of the peace, sittings of justices of the peace for the execution of those powers which are confided to them by their commission, or by charter, and by numerous statutes. They are of three descriptions:-...
suborn
suborn [Latin subornare, from sub- secretly + ornare to prepare, equip] 1 : to induce or procure to commit an unlawful act and esp. perjury [an attempt to a witness] 2 : to induce (perjury) or...
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...
Tichborne case
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
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