false oath
Example Sentences
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"So you took a false oath," the judge replied.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2010
Eisler's British lawyer contended that the treaty did not cover Eisler's conviction because in British law a false oath is not perjury unless it is taken in connection with a judicial proceeding.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have the feeling that I have taken a false oath.
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
They never scruple at taking a false oath for the sake of any temporary advantage....
From Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures by A. G. (Andrew George) Little
He is perjury personified; he is mental reservation incarnate, felony in flesh and bone; he is a false oath wearing a general's hat, and calling himself Monseigneur.
From Napoleon the Little by Victor Hugo
