commit a perjury
1perjury — per‧ju‧ry [ˈpɜːdʒəri ǁ ˈpɜːr ] noun [uncountable] LAW the crime of telling a lie after promising to tell the truth in a court of law: • A company official committed perjury during the trial. * * * perjury UK US /ˈpɜːdʒəri/ noun [U] ► LAW the… …
2commit perjury — index lie (falsify) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
3perjury — perjurious /peuhr joor ee euhs/, adj. perjuriously, adv. perjuriousness, n. /perr jeuh ree/, n., pl. perjuries. Law. the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal… …
4perjury — In criminal law, the willful assertion as to a matter of fact, opinion, belief, or knowledge, made by a witness in a judicial proceeding as part of his evidence, either upon oath or in any form allowed by law to be substituted for an oath,… …
5commit — Hana, ho okō. In such phrases as the following, commit is usually not translated: commit perjury, hō ike wahahe e; commit adultery, moekolohe. ♦ I did not commit myself, a ole i ae, a ole i hō ole; a ole i hō ike i ka mana o …
6perjury — n. to commit perjury …
7Subornation of perjury — is a legal term describing the crime of persuading another to commit perjury. [ Garner, Bryan A., Ed., Black s Law Dictionary (7th Ed) (West Group, St. Paul Minnesota, 1999), p. 1440.] It may be applied to an attorney who presents testimony (or… …
8commit perjury — give false testimony, lie under oath …
9subornation of perjury — The crime of encouraging, inducing, or assisting another in the commission of perjury, which is knowingly telling an untruth under oath. Example: Lawyer Frank is interviewing a witness in an accident case who says that Frank s client was… …
10subornation of perjury — noun (law) inducing someone to make a false oath as part of a judicial proceeding to prove subordination of perjury you must prove the perjury and also prove that the perjured statement was procured by the accused suborner who knew that it would… …
