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It is supported on either side by flat assertions which are either true or deliberate perjuries.
The subject of perjury is so distinct and far-reaching that it deserves separate consideration.
Young people swear 'eternal friendships,' but at these innocent perjuries their elders laugh.
See also on the amount of perjury caused by English legislation, Jeremy Bentham's Works, edit.
Aaron Woodward had committed deliberate perjury, or at least, something that amounted to the same thing.
This outrage, coupled with his perjury, spread terror and mourning through the whole country.
They will seldom be carried out through purely public motives or without perjury and violence.
He was prosecuted in turn, on a charge of perjury, and sentenced to a term of imprisonment.
In any public commotion, they redeem their existence only at the price of perjury or slavery.
He had, on a late occasion, experienced the talents of this youth for a good round perjury.
The witness was not cross-examined, but, after a threat to prosecute for perjury, was discharged.
At lover's perjuries they say Jove laughs, and no doubt he does the same at their quarrels.
There is the difference that there is between fiction and falsehood and poetry and perjury.
All this is attributed to, and firmly believed to be the consequence of, the father's perjury.
Attorney Erwin said that the perjury charge could purge the defendants in the case of contempt.
How shall we tell whether the witness has made an honest mistake, or has committed perjury?
Augustine sees no harm in oaths before courts if it were not for the danger of committing perjury.
He says that the testimony of those who are contesting the will smacks strongly of perjury.
Further, it directly encourages perjury, in fact makes lying essential to obtaining the relief of the law.
He knows that the perjuries and punishments about tobacco were sins that cried to heaven for abolition.
She herself was hung round with stories of murders, poisonings, perjuries, conspiracies, and other horrors.
Some were violently in favor of the prisoner, and considered half the witnesses to be committing perjury.
Granger was a witness in the cause, and was afterwards said to be conscience-stricken from his perjury.
He thus becomes liable to the penalties for perjury if he can be proved to have sworn falsely.
Take care you do not yourself become a prisoner and be tried before this very court for perjury.
Their very existence shows a preparedness to commit treason, perjury, and the murders of civil war!
Within their close corporation there were rivalries, intrigues, perjuries, and treacheries like those of a medieval court.
Once the oath was administered, these new deputies were confronted by the choice between perjury and service.
The few engagements we make we don't keep, and I shall try for the future to avoid perjury.
Lying, swearing, taking false toll, perjury, selling rum to the Indians, all were punished by whipping.
A criminal recalls with joy the perjuries by which his helpers secured his escape from justice.
I asked her the cause of her distress, and she answered, sadly, "I am thinking of a perjury."
One would really think that to fulfill the courtesies of society and to commit perjury, were equal crimes.
In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.
The whole of this evidence was found to be perjury, and Lady Douglas was recommended for prosecution.
The only crime that can be committed in connection with this investigation is the crime of perjury.
The town is as busy again as ever on the affair of Canning, who has been tried for perjury.
There was nothing very impressive about the proceeding, but all the same he was liable for perjury.
The more he searched into this case, the more of a mountainous mass of perjury and fraud revealed itself.
I have frequently suffered financial loss rather than commit perjury or violate my sense of what is right.
Hilary Vireo would not have dared to lead to perjury, by such words, a common man and woman.
Who carries in his bosom that sentiment towards the man who procured his throne by perjury?
The perjury of the witnesses appeared immediately after; and the king seemed to regret the execution of Cornish.
Each time the foreman of the panel came in with perjury on his lips and reported 'not guilty.'
A witness should tell his story, and if he speaks falsely should be considered as guilty of perjury.
He confessed to perjury at the Ryan inquest, naming the witnesses and the amounts he paid to each.
There is no question that in many cases it has caused fraud and perjury rather than prevented it.
The imam renounced all explaining away of the oath, and was willing to abide the penalties of perjury.
If they swore to that, they would be guilty of perjury, and that is a state prison offense.
Towers denies, on oath, that she made any such statement, will she or you be guilty of perjury?
James has committed perjury, though I have no doubt at all that Lewis would like to have it suggested.
I am fulfilling an oath, the violation of which would be perjury and the eternal ruin of my soul.
Sir Patience Ward, for giving evidence in his favor, was proceeded against for perjury and found guilty.
It is scarcely credible how great was the amount of perjury that this Act brought into the country.
In Werner's drama, Attila, a young man whom Attila loves is accused of perjury and confesses his guilt.
You would have laid yourselves open to every reproach rather than let a little necessary perjury pass your lips.
I look upon it as perjury and a miserable shift to evade the real case of complaint, if any there be.
Probably, since the foundation stone of that institution was laid there has not been a single case of perjury.
I might have pressed the witness as to the property itself, but I refrained because her perjuries were manifest.
They knew that his testimony would prove the perjury of Thompson and Gilmer beyond any reasonable doubt.
To kiss one's thumb instead of the book; a vulgar expedient to avoid perjury in taking a false oath.
Cain, who was arrested for perjury following the marriage to the sixteen-year-old girl, was held under bond.
Amelia, sweet Amelia, take heed, take heed of perjury; you are on the stage of death, to suffer for your sins.
Upon his recovery he was then and there committed for perjury, in default of ten thousand dollars bail.
"Had you come to me before the trial, you would have had the same reward, without the crime of perjury."
Whatever they said, was firmer than an oath; but they avoided swearing, and esteemed it worse than perjury.
The issues finally framed covered several years' transactions, and the evidence included forged documents and quantities of perjury.
Neither do I see the necessity of supporting and bolstering up a race which is the very incarnation of perjury.
Must she commit more perjury, with the certainty that various people must know that her oath was false?
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty, and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.
In the existing state of public opinion, prosecution for perjury after the oath of office was taken was impossible.
To one of Claudia's proud nature it was easier to believe a man guilty of murder than of lying and perjury.
All the kingdoms of the earth could not have tempted Charlton to serve himself by another man's perjury.
I hereby confess and declare, of my own free will, that I have been guilty of lying and of perjury.
And he very clearly perceived, that for himself there was nothing in prospect but the penalty of perjury.
You remember, of course, in giving your testimony, that we are going to investigate the case and prosecute for perjury!
If that could be proved, then the woman had been guilty of perjury, and her evidence would collapse altogether.
No king stands so high, that he may not be judged by his people for murder, treachery, and perjury.
Smith faced the committee on such an affirmation, and gave false testimony, can it be called anything but perjury?
I should determine without waiting to hear a single fact that the man was convicted by means of perjury.
We found that there was one way and one way only of effecting our escape, namely, by committing perjury.
At least we can hardly expect to win the master to do justice by setting him an example of perjury.
He selected a wretch named Blackhead, who had formerly been convicted of perjury and sentenced to have his ears clipped.
Their action in swearing to discharge duties which they never intended to perform was characterized as little short of perjury.
Will it not be perjury and a far greater wrong to Bertram than if you should break your hasty promise?
You know that Dorsey never threatened to have him arrested for perjury because he had sworn in favor of Dorsey.
You have taken advantage of it to get your eyes on the perjury case I have against your bosom friend, Jack Roche.
For a convict to give under oath false answers to the questions thus put to him is, of course, perjury.
If things were considered attentively, it would be obvious that under such management, superstition and politics are schools of perjury.
He was aware that he had already sworn what, if he contradicted, might subject him to be prosecuted for perjury.
At the same time, and as a part of this system, the increase of perjury has accompanied the increase of hypocrisy.
He wanted such a war as the Spaniards used to wage, with murder and perjury, burning villages and poisoned wells.
Is imprisonment for a year, or imprisonment for life, or for how long, a fair and proportionate punishment for perjury?
However benevolent the intention of this "Peace," it led to nothing but perjury, and violence reigned as uncontrolled as before.
The native likes to deal with a judge who will wink at perjury, and who is not above taking a bribe.
"I should like to ask," he continued, "the reverend gentleman in what capacity he expects to be punished for his perjury?"
"Luke, you may rely upon me for anything short of perjury; and if it comes to that, I must think first."
In a few days all the world will know that I have been made the victim of a discharged servant's perjury.
Or, if he did, it would be only to pour forth perjuries, and say that he had seen nothing, heard nothing.
The statute then passed shows of what little use the oath was even in those days as a preventive of perjury.