Perjurious - Law Dictionary Search Results
New trial
New trial. If any defect of judgment happen from causes wholly extrinsic, i.e., arising from matters foreign to or dethors the record, the only remedy the party injured by it has (except formerly error coram nobis...
Interpreters
Interpreters, persons sworn at a trial to interpret the evidence of a foreigner or a deaf and dumb person to the court. as to the liability of an interpreter for perjury, see (English) Perjury Act, 1911...
perjured
perjured 1 : guilty of perjury [a witness] 2 : marked by perjury [ testimony]
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Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in...
Expulsion
Expulsion, is the turning out the legal proprietor of an estate in reality before the termination of the estate, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 57. Is forcing out, Webster American Dictionary, p....
False swearing
False swearing. See PERJURY.
Frauds, Statute of
Frauds, Statute of, 29 Car. 2, c. 3 (A.D. 1676). This famous statute is said to have been famed by Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Keeper Guilford, and Sir Leoline Jenkins, an eminent civilian. Lord Nottingham used...
Kissing the book
Kissing the book, kissing the New Testament on taking an oath (see that title). This practice, which has of late years been much objected to on sanitary grounds, is peculiar to English Courts, and even in...
Mainad
Mainad, a false oath, perjury
Mala in se
Mala in se, acts which are wrong in themselves, whether prohibited by human laws or not, as distinguished from mala prohibita. Of this class are murder, robbery, perjury, planning or provoking riot, injury to persons, or...
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