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.

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.

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

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

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

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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.

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 ).

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

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As is the case with the allotment provisions for support of vocational rehabilitation services, the matching requirements are also based on a statutory formula.

The statutory policy of fostering free competition is obviously furthered when no supplier has an advantage over his competitors from an acquisition of his customer's stock likely to have the effects condemned by the statute.

A clearly recognized exception is a statutory merger or consolidation.

Furthermore, in a C reorganization the continuing interest of stockholders of the corporation which paid the tax must be greater than is necessary in a statutory merger, to which the statute is clearly inapplicable.

In the rare case where a corporation's only substantial asset, or its most important one, is a claim for refund, perhaps its transfer should not be permitted, whether the reorganization takes the form of a statutory merger or of the acquisition of assets for stock.

It is distinguished from judicial review, which refers to the court's overriding constitutional or statutory right to determine if a legislative act or administrative decision is defective for jurisdictional or other reasons ( which may vary by jurisdiction ).

In England and Wales, affray is a statutory offence.

Very democratic, it is more expansive than a normal constitution – many statutory acts in other countries are written into this constitution, like Social Security and taxes.

In Ontario, Boxing Day is a statutory holiday where all full-time workers receive time off with pay.

In some Canadian provinces, Boxing Day is a statutory holiday that is always celebrated on 26 December.

In Canadian provinces where Boxing Day is a statutory holiday, and it falls on a Saturday or Sunday, compensation days are given in the following week.

In many countries, there is also a statutory duty to declare interests in relation to any transactions, and the director can be fined for failing to make disclosure.

The common law is more malleable than statutory law.

In almost all areas of the law ( even those where there is a statutory framework, such as contracts for the sale of goods, or the criminal law ), legislature-enacted statutes generally give only terse statements of general principle, and the fine boundaries and definitions exist only in the common law ( connotation 1 ).

Where a tort is rooted in common law, all traditionally recognized damages for that tort may be sued for, whether or not there is mention of those damages in the current statutory law.

Later courts have limited Erie slightly, to create a few situations where United States federal courts are permitted to create federal common law rules without express statutory authority, for example, where a federal rule of decision is necessary to protect uniquely federal interests, such as foreign affairs, or financial instruments issued by the federal government.

See, e. g., Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States, ( giving federal courts the authority to fashion common law rules with respect to issues of federal power, in this case negotiable instruments backed by the federal government ); see also International News Service v. Associated Press, 248 U. S. 215 ( 1918 ) ( creating a cause of action for misappropriation of " hot news " that lacks any statutory grounding, but that is one of the handful of federal common law actions that survives today ); National Basketball Association v. Motorola, Inc., 105 F. 3d 841, 843-44, 853 ( 2d Cir.

Collecting counterfeits and forgeries is a controversial area because of the possibility that counterfeits might someday reenter the coin market as authentic coins, but US statutory and case law do not explicitly prohibit possession of counterfeit coins.

In privately held companies, the Board of Directors often only consists of the statutory corporate officials, and in sole proprietorship and partnerships, the board is entirely optional, and if it does exist, only operates in an advisory capacity to the owner or partners.

Canada Day () is the national day of Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act, 1867 ( today called the Constitution Act, 1867, in Canada ), which united three colonies into a single country called Canada within the British Empire.

Under the federal Holidays Act, Canada Day is observed on July 1 unless that date falls on a Sunday, in which case July 2 is the statutory holiday, although celebratory events generally take place on July 1 even though it is not the legal holiday.