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Eleven witnesses were examined, and out of these no less than nine committed absolute, diabolical, and egregious perjury.
Merchants and traders are harassed by twenty different systems of laws, prolific in endless frauds, perjuries and evasions.
It is amazing how, apart altogether from perjury, two witnesses will give entirely different accounts of the same matter.
The presiding judge, as I took my place, read a brief telling terrible menace, expounding the legal penalties of perjury.
The intentional encouragement of perjury cannot be imputed to the government; but necessity induced a most perilous laxity of feeling.
It exonerated Dreyfus from all blame, declared him to have been the victim of a conspiracy based upon perjury and forgery.
Oates' villainies did, unfortunately, rise triumphant from out the ashes of this his first signal defeat in his campaign of perjuries.
We triumphed, as I knew we should, notwithstanding the forgeries, the falsehood, and the perjury brought in array against us.
The fraud, perjury, cupidity, and corruption, with which it is unhappily too often attended, would at once produce its overthrow.
All, without distinction, thirst for blood, love plunder, and practice cunning, perjury, deceit, ingratitude, and every description of impurity.
They bound themselves not to play at dice nor frequent taverns, to wear no affected clothing, to avoid perjury and vain swearing.
His remonstrance with the Earl as he charged him with perjury and treason availed nothing, and he was compelled to proceed.
He is shocked by perjury, drunkenness, corruption, and so forth, but has not seriously to meet skepticism of the speculative variety.
Their own writings were now produced, it was proved that they were guilty of perjury, and they were condemned to ignominious punishment.
It was practically impossible to counteract the oath or affidavit of the pretended master, and a premium was practically put upon perjury.
She faced the Inspector fiercely, quite unabashed by the fact that her vigorous offer to commit perjury had been of no avail.
By dishonoring sentence shall be understood a sentence for the crimes of high treason, murder, rape, theft, fraud, perjury, or forgery.
On the day after his secret interview with Dickson he proved his subordination to authority by committing willful and deliberate perjury.
It required the combined perjury of the other Wags to prove an alibi for him, but June had an omelet every morning thereafter.
The longest purse secured the greatest number of witnesses, for, strangely enough, very few people are willing to commit perjury gratis.
The Judges, willing to prevent chance of perjury, did not bring Voltaire to swearing, but contrived a way to justice without that.
Wailed Melissa, raising her hands in entreaty; but the despot replied, sternly: "There is no passion which can betray Caesar into perjury."
He watches over them with tender solicitude, rewarding truth, charity, and uprightness, but severely punishing perjury, cruelty, and want of hospitality.
The Indigo disturbances in the district had given rise to a great deal of violence, litigation, and fraud; forgery and perjury were rampant.
The informer system turns it into a den, into a cavern, into a dungeon, where crawl the slimy monsters of perjury and treachery.
Where he willfully makes a false affidavit it is equivalent to perjury, and the penalty for that is generally imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The ancient poets and orators denounce perjury in the strongest terms, and speak of the offense as one of a most odious character.
Perjury and forgery were resorted to in order to establish charges, and the whole mode of conducting trials was a burlesque of justice.
The pernicious doctrine that fraud and perjury are to be recognized auxiliaries in popular elections is one that may return to plague its inventors.
They'll want him for criminal slander and, possibly, if he sticks to the absurd story that he told, you, for perjury, also.
He will ask me, for instance, why I have not included special classes in blackmail, monopoly, bullying, bribery, perjury, and so forth.
It was amazingly strange that a girl, previously and afterwards of golden character, should in a moment aim by perjury at 'innocent blood.'
Then, remember, you spoke in a very startling manner and practically accused her of having committed perjury at the time of the trial.
"You are afraid of my committing myself to 'the bottomless perjury of an et cetera,'" said Philip, smiling, as he turned to fold his letter.
The price of pardon for robbery was twelve shillings, for murder only seven shillings and sixpence, and for perjury nine shillings.
Not contented with pursuing this oblique or hypocritical conduct, we again see, our great Apostle, evidently, willfully guilty of perjury, or a false oath.
Were four witnesses to testify in a court of justice and contradict each other as the Evangelists do, they would be prosecuted for perjury.
Corrupt practices, flagrant dishonesty, shameless perjury of which he had been guilty had often been hinted at, yet none dare attack him openly.
Everybody admits that he is the pewter of perjury and has to be plated with the silver of respectability gotten from somebody else.
Is it impossible to suppose that some publishers would do that when they carefully provide against going to the penitentiary for committing perjury?
Any person making a false affidavit for liquor is counted guilty of perjury, and is liable to imprisonment from six months to two years.
He could tell them that it was intended to institute proceedings against Johnston for willful perjury, but that was by the way.
A practitioner secures a witness who will depose to anything, perjury being looked on more as a joke than as a crime, and so never punished.
He was an officer of high trust, and he could not have been guilty of that crime without connecting it with perjury and burglary.
The crime of perjury has always been regarded as peculiarly heinous, and we find it punishable here more severely than any other non-capital offense.
There is no stipulation to which they will not assent, and violate, if their interest should be supposed to lie in the direction of perjury.
Every witness must be branded with perjury to entitle us to doubt that the familiarity of Perez with the princess had attracted observation.
As their fondness for dicing led to perjuries, scandals and homicides, they were required thereafter to abstain from it, privately as well as publicly.
Before we trust them a second time, let us try their efficacy in the chastisement of perjury and the vindication of their own honor.
William gathered together his most important and most trusted counselors; and they were unanimous in urging him to resent the perjury and injury.
The initiate vows the ruin of all religion and of all positive government, whether despotic or democratic; murder, poison, perjury, are all at their disposal.
For though a great number of the electors were not at all averse to the bribe, yet their consciences were too tender to digest perjury.
It was also a Star Chamber punishment; and from the time of Titus Oates to its abolition, the pillory was a common punishment for perjury.
That morsel of evidence had been fabricated, and laid, at any rate, one of the witnesses in the last trial open to a charge of perjury.
Perjury is to be punished by the wardens and society with such correction as that other men of the fellowship may be warned thereby.
I didn't doubt it was sharp work; but even with valor, or without valor, what could sedition and perjury avail against truth and loyalty!
This suggested the next step in the course that was only not perjury because it was so purely instinctive, the subterfuge of terrified vanity.
Again, the inducement to perjury was so great that it was thought imprudent to allow the accused to confess under the solemnity of an oath.
Two days later, by persuasion on our part and perjury on theirs, we had snatched a dozen men from the same number of protesting hostesses.
We can say only that Harold did something which enabled William to charge him with perjury and breach of the duty of a vassal.
The act, to guard against falsity in the oath, provides that if false the person taking it shall be tried and punished for perjury.
The most memorable of all the delusions and slanders of the times was produced by the perjuries of an unprincipled wretch called Titus Oates.
The walls of that room must be by this time pretty well saturated with perjury, and many of the witnesses catch at once the infection.
If this should turn out to be the case, I shall want some other chance against her besides the chance of indicting her for perjury.
And then believing what I did, I fastened the guilt upon Ned, and went the lengths of perjury in my blind effort to avenge myself.
"You did not think this when you faced the court this morning with perjury on your lips," came in slow, ironical tones from her companion.
This constant perjury is very clear evidence of the depth of moral degradation and religious decadence which the followers of the Mahdi have now reached.
Nothing in the trial of a cause is so difficult as to expose the perjury of a witness whose intelligence enables him to hide his lack of scruple.
I then had him indicted for perjury and forgery, and he was put under bonds of fourteen hundred dollars in each case to appear for trial.
He has dared insult the national honor: he has had the baseness to excite the French to break their oaths, and to be guilty of perjury!
William granted their request, their yea was to be taken in the place of an oath, and the delinquent was to be punished as for perjury.
The people swore eternal hatred to Monarchy, and eternal fidelity to Constitutions, till, heaven, weary of their perjuries, sent them a despot in his wrath.
If brought into court, they held a pebble in their mouths, being under the impression that when they were so provided perjury did not count.
Now, if I do not make out from this that it was a praiseworthy action instead of perjury, a good, honest action, I will abandon the case.
If brought into Court, they held a pebble in their mouth, being under the impression that when they were so provided, perjury did not count.
Theft, homicide, and blasphemy peeped out at every window of their souls; lying, perjury, fraud, impudence, and misery were the only graces of their countenances.
Ask of the court records in every American city, and you will find stronger cases and stronger instances, more degradation, greater hardship, and equal perjury.
Not only do prosecutions for perjury not follow, but, in many instances, the witnesses are not even suspected of bad faith or an intention to falsify.
Acts of treachery like these, Cicero, in the third book of his Offices, has properly observed, instead of mitigating, tend to aggravate the guilt of perjury.
"Oh, plenty of charges, sir," replied the man; "fraud, conspiracy, perjury, forgery, in regard to all which I am ready to give information on my oath."
This cross, was raised by a faithless ancestor to the shades of the maid whom his perjury had destroyed, and here I must do penance thus.
His case, whether as regarded the perjury or the murder, was entitled to no clemency, beyond that which the letter of the law strictly allowed.
He was of course the principal witness in his own behalf, and if wholesale perjury could have saved him he would have been acquitted beyond a doubt.
Later on, essaying to cash in on the perjury, he asked the fellow to aid him in some domestic unpleasantness, and was refused on grounds of morals.
The State's attorney was paralyzed, but the court admitted the almanac as competent testimony, and every witness was completely impeached and convicted of perjury.
A furrier and a grocer, who deny the use of baptizing unconscious children, and who are simple-minded enough to oppose the forcing of irrational creatures into deliberate perjury.
I find that innocence may be oppressed by such an impudent fellow as this; he that does not value perjury has any man's life at his mercy.
Perjury is decidedly on the increase, and at the present time scarcely a trial is conducted in which it does not appear in a more or less flagrant form.
The administration of justice was corrupted by systematic bribery and perjury, and the lives of innocent men were ruthlessly sacrificed under the forms of law.
In such a case, the witness or witnesses stood impeached, their testimony was overthrown and they, themselves, became subject to the pains and penalties of perjury.
Even perjury has proven inadequate to the invention of material with which to sustain a complicity in guilt, from which his previous character alone should have vindicated him.
There was the headquarters of the foul crew that flourished on perjury and grew fat upon using the forms of the law to frustrate its aims.
Senator Bailey indignantly denies that he received any such sums, and announces that he will prosecute for perjury anyone who swears to the existence of such evidence.
If we are assailed for this intent, whether as a body or in private, we promise to defend ourselves, and to aid one another, under pain of infamy and perjury.
For perjury, the offender was, for a first crime, taken to the Guildhall, and there placed upon a high stool, bareheaded, before the Mayor and Aldermen.
Of course some say that bearing false witness means lying; but surely malicious perjury is a special crime, distinctly described, and not the same thing as mere misrepresentation.
I will break all other laws to obey those which it obeys, and if I disobey these I shall expect death as the just penalty of my perjury.
And I have advantage, so far as the ground of the precept is as moral, as the reason of that punishment of Zedekiah, which was his perfidy and perjury.
The influence of the election year is also noticeable in the group of crimes prejudicial to the administration of public justice, which includes contempt of court, bribery, and perjury.
Unhappily, in our days, the atmosphere which surrounds that holy altar you speak of, is so thick with perjuries, that an honest man can hardly breathe therein.