perjury Betydning & definition

Eksempler på perjury

• The child so born is illegitimate in the eyes of the law; the husband who hides this fact on the birth certificate is committing perjury.

• How can one commit perjury without using language to state a proposition?

• It emerged from questioning that he had been previously sentenced to six months' imprisonment for perjury.

• After serving a sentence for perjury, for example, she is warned by the prison matron against violating her parole.

• This is perjury and must be punished accordingly.

• Lying was punishable as perjury.

• She hardly knew what perjury was.

• In attempting to preserve her secrets, she makes them far more available to investigation and adjudication, her acts of perjury paradoxically (though perhaps not surprisingly) leading to full disclosure.