perjury English

Meaning perjury meaning

What does perjury mean?

perjury

— noun criminal offense of making false statements under oath

Synonyms perjury synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as perjury?

perjury English » English

false evidence

lying under oath

false oath

breach of promise

false testimony

bearing false witness

untruthfulness

misrepresentation

forswearing

false witness

false swearing

Topics perjury topics

What do people use perjury to talk about?

Social behavior Law Trial

Witness, testify

• What words refer to testifying in a court?
  witness testify give evidence tell about recount provide information facts truth false witness perjure perjury report cross-examine hearsay
• What words refer to a witness lying?
  false testimony perjury

Language and thought Communication Say True

Tell a lie

• What words refer to a lie?
  lie falsehood fib white lie half-truth perjury propaganda

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How do I use perjury in a sentence?

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More women than men commit perjury.

In a court of justice women are more often found guilty of perjury than men.

The US judicial system and press are incredible: One day you're a poor examplary housewife, victim of a rape, the next, you're an illegal immigrant, having committed perjury and being suspected of whitewashing drug money.

The court judged that the witness committed perjury.

Tom was charged with perjury.

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You committed perjury. I'll see what I can do to get your sentence reduced.

Do you know the penalty for perjury?

Sir, this sword that you feel at your chest is always ready to punish perjury.

This bitter drink should be a symbol for you of the bitterness and remorse which will remain in your heart, perjury which will burn your lips.

But, they also say that if you betray your oath, you will not escape the vengeance of the brothers spread out across the world, and who have sworn to punish perjury.

Latour, are you aware of the penalties of perjury?

I got him on perjury.

You're aware that you're under oath. and that any false answer makes you liable to perjury?

Martinez, you know the seriousness of perjury?

Downright perjury.

Would you add perjury to the other charges, Isabella?

Look, Joe I'd do anything to help him. - So would I, Joe but we can't just say. - They'd arrest us for perjury.

And are you aware, Mrs. Helm, that the penalty in this country for perjury is a heavy term of imprisonment?

Whether she calls it Meineid or perjury, she lied.

You were tried for blackmail, not perjury.

And I wish to impress upon all witnesses. that perjury in connection with an official coroner's inquest. is punishable to the full extent of the law.

Yes, but that's called perjury, isn't it?

To your trial and conviction In Norfolk for perjury?

Except that I must hold you on a charge of perjury.

They got her in the klink for perjury.

Signing somebody else's name is perjury.

And are you aware, Mrs Helm, that the penalty in this country for perjury is a heavy term of imprisonment?

Before answering, Mrs Helm, I wish to warn you that the law regarding perjury in this country is very severe.

Full yourself together. They'll have you up for perjury.

Let them try me for perjury, or an accessory, or.

Mr. Ikawa, is perjury a grave crime?

He'll make me commit perjury.

So he gets charged with abduction, imitating a soldier. repairing the morals of a minor, resisting arrest, perjury!

It may be piffle in your book. but I say that breaking and entering, theft, perjury, impersonating a soldier. impairing the morals of a minor, jailbreak, with or without conspiracy. et cetera, et cetera, are not piffle!

Like perjury.

How much can I get for perjury?

Whether she calls it Meineid or perjury, she lied. The only question is why.

I wish to warn you that the law regarding perjury in this country is very severe.

If you have already committed perjury in this courtroom, I strongly advise you not to add to your crime.

They'll have you up for perjury.

Let them try me for perjury, or an accessory, or. - Ready?

I think it is well to remind the witnesses concerned, before they give evidence, that perjury is a serious offense.

He told me that if I protected Mr Feldenstein, that I would be held under arrest for perjury.

News and current affairs

But the judges denied Tempo's request that Winata be arrested and tried for perjury, telling us to report it to the police, which we did.

The judges then denied our request for a postponement of the court decision until Mr. Winata's perjury case was resolved.

Rules were for others, and at the very end of his term in office his one public disagreement with Bush concerned the President's refusal to pardon Cheney's former chief of staff, Scooter Libby, who had been convicted of perjury.

Breaking an oath to tell the truth is perjury, and lying in official documents is both perjury and fraud.

Indeed, at stake in the mortgage settlement are fundamental and systemic breaches of the rule of law - perjury and fraud on an economy-wide scale.