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
With them, a false oath or any measure of deceit, was praiseworthy, if it would but aid the Secession cause.
From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton
It is held by the St. Giles’s casuists, that by kissing one’s own thumb instead of smacking calfskin, the guilt of taking a false oath is avoided.
They say, then, that a false oath was filed.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Ingersoll, Robert Green
