Perjury, also known as forswearing, is the willful act of swearing a false oath or affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to a judicial proceeding.

Perjury is considered a serious offense as it can be used to usurp the power of the courts, resulting in miscarriages of justice.

Perjury is a statutory offence in England and Wales.

It is created by section 1 ( 1 ) of the Perjury Act 1911.

Perjury is triable only on indictment.

Perjury is a statutory offence in Northern Ireland.

It is created by article 3 ( 1 ) of the Perjury ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1979 ( S. I.

* The first Monday after January 6 is known as " Lost Monday " ( in French: Lundi perdu ) or " Perjury Monday " ( Lundi parjuré ).

Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiably false statements on a material matter under oath or affirmation in a court of law, or in any of various sworn statements in writing.

Perjury is a crime, because the witness has sworn to tell the truth and, for the credibility of the court to remain intact, witness testimony must be relied on as truthful.

This part of his life is covered in two autobiographical works called Pride and Perjury and Porridge and Passion.

This offence is created by section 7 ( 2 ) of the Perjury Act 1911.

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See section 13 of the Perjury Act 1911.

See Perjury in Nigeria.

Perjury by witnesses began to be punished before the end of fifteen century by the Star Chamber.

See section 3 of the Maintenance and Embracery Act 1540, the 5 Eliz 1 c 9 ( An Act for the Punyshement of suche persones as shall procure or comit any wyllful Perjurye ) and the Perjury Act 1728.

This replaces the Perjury Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1946 ( c. 13 ) ( N. I.

Perjury operates in American law as an inherited principle of the common law of England, which defined the act as the " willful and corrupt giving, upon a lawful oath, or in any form allowed by law to be substituted for an oath, in a judicial proceeding or course of justice, of a false testimony material to the issue or matter of inquiry.

Perjury ’ s current position in America ’ s legal takes the form of state and federal statutes.

Perjury law ’ s evolution in the United States has experience the most debate with regards to the materiality requirement.

* Gabriel J. Chin and Scott Wells, The " Blue Wall of Silence " as Evidence of Bias and Motive to Lie: A New Approach to Police Perjury, 59 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 233 ( 1998 ).

In 2003, UK independent label Invisible Hands Music released the 3CD box set Reworks: Brain Salad Perjury, a new work created by Keith Emerson in collaboration with Mike Bennett, using sampling technology.

* The New York Times May 2, 1994, p. A1, Accomplices to Perjury, Alan Dershowitz

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It is even true that some among them use the sheer fact of conformity -- `` everyone does it '' -- as a criterion for conduct.

A letter of a few days later from Washington's aide to Morgan stated, `` His Excellency is highly pleased with your conduct upon this occasion ''.

It is this loss of initiative in how we conduct our economy which may lead to the loss of initiative in how we conduct our political affairs.

If there is anything which we can do in the executive branch of the Government to speed up the processes by which we come to decisions on matters on which we must act promptly, that in itself would be a major contribution to the conduct of our affairs.

It is also sufficient to show the Christian and any other champion of justice that he needs to make sure not only that his cause is just but also that his conduct is just, i.e., that, if economic pressure has to be resorted to, this be applied directly against those persons directly in the way of some salutary change in business or institutional practices, while, if injury fall upon others, it fall upon them indirectly and secondarily ( however inevitably ) and not by deliberate intent and direct action against them.

This makes necessary a morality of means, and principles governing the conduct of resistance whenever this is thought to be justified.

The question, then, is whether sufficient discrimination in the use of even non-violent means of coercion is to be found in the fact that such conduct demoralizes and overcomes the opponent while re-moralizing and re-establishing him.

The explanation offered for her conduct is a misguided attempt to save her marriage to a neurotic husband left sterile as a result of an automobile accident.

Use of Video Arraignment system allows the courts to conduct the requisite arraignment process without the need to transport the person who has been formally accused ( offender ) to the courtroom by using an audio-visual link between the location where the offender is being held and the courtroom.

During the journey in the wilderness, Aaron is not always prominent or active ; and he sometimes appears guilty of rebellious or treasonable conduct.

Many religions, whether they believe in the soul's existence in another world like Christianity, Islam and many pagan belief systems, or in reincarnation like many forms of Hinduism and Buddhism, believe that one's status in the afterlife is a reward or punishment for their conduct during life.

Aesthetic ethics refers to the idea that human conduct and behaviour ought to be governed by that which is beautiful and attractive.

A person is guilty of affray only if he intends to use or threaten violence or is aware that his conduct may be violent or threaten violence.

It is one of the five Yamas ( restraints ) which make up the code of conduct, the first of the eight limbs of which this path consists.

" A woman cannot be herself in modern society ," he argues, since it is " an exclusively male society, with laws made by men and with prosecutors and judges who assess feminine conduct from a masculine standpoint.

To conduct an atom probe experiment, such a needle is placed in an ultra high vacuum chamber.

The situation is complex, however, because the relatively free Russian media is allowed to transmit television programming, sell newspapers and conduct journalistic activities in Belarus ( though some Russian journalists have been expelled by the Belarusian government ) thus giving some members of the public, typically those in large cities with many Russian residents, access to an alternative point of view in the Russian language ( nearly all Belarusians understand and most of them speak Russian ).

It is not the function of tort law to police such conduct.

While one-to-one bartering is practised between individuals and businesses on an informal basis, organized barter exchanges have developed to conduct third party bartering.