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 a conduct crime.

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.

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.

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

The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I, which presents Derrida's seminar from 2001 to 2002, has appeared in English translation ; further volumes currently projected for the series include The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II ( 2002 – 2003 ), Death Penalty, Volume I ( 1999 – 2000 ), Death Penalty, Volume II ( 2000 – 2001 ), Perjury and Pardon, Volume I ( 1997 – 1998 ), and Perjury and Pardon, Volume II ( 1998 – 1999 ).

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.

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.

The report did not make any findings as to whether the arrest was justified ( calling for the evidence to be tested in a court under oath ), but Sir Charles Warren concluded “ I am not prepared to say that I can see any grounds for accusing PC Endacott of wilful Perjury.

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

* Perjury and Perversion of the Course of Justice Considered ( PDF ), a primer on the legal details of the offence

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See section 13 of the Perjury Act 1911.

See Perjury in Nigeria.

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

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

* 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

" See Perjury and Defamation.

By upholding his own personal code of behavior, the private detective has placed himself in opposition to a society whose fabric is permeated with crime and corruption.

Whatever the psychological truth in the Oedipus myth, an Oedipus who is drawn to his fate by irresistible external forces can carry the symbol of humanity and its archaic crime, and the incest that is unknowing renews the mystery of the eternal dream of childhood and absorbs us in the secret.

Since they commonly translate thoughts and feelings into deeds, hands naturally represent action, and since nearly half the characters in Great Expectations are of the underworld or closely allied to it, the linking of hands with crime or violence is not to be wondered at.

It is the similarity between Estella's hands and Molly's ( `` The action of her fingers was like the action of knitting '' ) that provides Pip with a vital clue to the real identity of both and establishes a symbolic connection between the underworld of crime and the genteel cruelty of Satis House.

Over-chilling is an accepted method for covering up the faults of many a cheap or poor white wine, especially a dry wine -- and certainly less of a crime than serving a wine at a temperature which reveals it as unattractive.

She didn't like her stepmother, but nothing is known to have occurred shortly before the crime that could have caused such a murderous rage.

"' The only exception to this is that if a defendant appeals a conviction for a crime having multiple levels of offenses, where they are convicted on a lesser offense, the appeal is of the lesser offense ; the conviction represents an acquittal of the more serious offenses.

This is also often the stage at which arguments for or against pre-trial release and bail are made, depending on the alleged crime and jurisdiction.

In law, it is generally meant to state specifically and in detail what one did and for what reason, often in relation to commission of a crime.

Allocution is sometimes required of a defendant who pleads guilty to a crime in a plea bargain in exchange for a reduced sentence.

Rieux is like a witness who exercises restraint when called to testify about a crime ; he describes what the characters said and did, without speculating about their thoughts and feelings, although he does offer generalized assessments of the shifting mood of the town as a whole.

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty short stories.

The last film is not based on any Christie work but displays a few plot elements from They Do It With Mirrors ( viz., the ship is used as a reform school for wayward boys and one of the teachers uses them as a crime force ), and there is a kind of salute to The Mousetrap.

In one version of the myth of Tantalus, part of Tantalus ' crime is that after tasting ambrosia himself, he attempts to steal some away to give to other mortals.

In law, assault is a crime that involves causing a victim to apprehend violence.

Assault is a common law crime defined as " unlawfully and intentionally applying force to the person of another, or inspiring a belief in that other that force is immediately to be applied to him.

" The law also recognises the crime of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, where grievous bodily harm is defined as " harm which in itself is such as seriously to interfere with health.

; Piracy with violence: Section 2 of the Piracy Act 1837 provides that it is an offence, amongst other things, for a person, with intent to commit or at the time of or immediately before or immediately after committing the crime of piracy in respect of any ship or vessel, to assault, with intent to murder, any person being on board of or belonging to such ship or vessel.

The more serious crime of aggravated assault is treated as a felony.