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
To marry a man, letting him think you ... something you were not ... did not that amount to deceiving by a false oath?
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
He never forgot that he had sworn a false oath, and it was to no purpose that Belisante reminded him of all the ill deeds done by the steward to him and others.
From The Red Romance Book by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford
Second charge: Transmitting a false oath and making it.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll
