0 the crime of telling lies in court when you have promised to tell the truth:
She was sentenced to two years in jail for committing perjury.
1 the crime of telling a lie in court after promising formally to tell the truth
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.
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