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 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.

* 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.

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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Section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 provides that common assault, like battery, is triable only in the magistrates ' court in England and Wales ( unless it is linked to a more serious offence, which is triable in the Crown Court ).

Affray is triable either way.

In relation to England and Wales, the expression " indictable offence " means an offence which, if committed by an adult, is triable on indictment, whether it is exclusively so triable or triable either way ; and the term " indictable ", in its application to offences, is to be construed accordingly.

In this definition, references to the way or ways in which an offence is triable are to be construed without regard to the effect, if any, of section 22 of the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 on the mode of trial in a particular case.

In relation to England and Wales, the expression " summary offence " means an offence which, if committed by an adult, is triable only summarily ; and the term " summary ", in its application to offences, is to be construed accordingly.

In this definition, references to the way in which an offence is triable are to be construed without regard to the effect, if any, of section 22 of the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 on the mode of trial in a particular case.

Theft is triable either way.

An offence is generally only triable in the jurisdiction where the offence took place, unless a specific statute enables the UK to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction.

Furthermore, deposition transcripts are frequently submitted in support of motions for summary judgment as evidence that there is no triable issue of fact.

The Court of Cassation ( ; ) is France's court of last resort having jurisdiction over all matters triable in the judicial stream with scope of review in determining miscarriages of justice or in certifying questions of law.

Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.

Actually, only two men know what the formula is, Blake and '' -- He stopped and looked at Thor's body.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

Thus, there is freshness not only in the individual movements of the dance but in the shape of their continuity as well.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in.