false oath

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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

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.

From The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew King of the Beggars; containing his Life, a Dictionary of the Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that Extraordinary Man by Unknown

They call me a fool, as you did, dear, just now; they call kissing the Bible, which means taking a false oath, smacking calf-skin.”

From Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest by Watts, Theodore

And woe to him who perverted law and justice, woe to him who swore a false oath; Thor's thunderbolt was sure to fall upon the audacious transgressor and dash him to pieces.

From Pine Needles by Warner, Susan