false swearing

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One man pleaded guilty to false swearing, a misdemeanor, for voting on his deceased wife’s behalf, an action he said was part of her “dying wishes.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2022

The three former detectives surrendered Friday afternoon to face multiple counts each of perjury and false swearing for false testimony, said Jane Roh, a spokesperson of the district attorney’s office.

From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2021

Donovan was indicted Feb. 17 for bribery, two counts of false swearing and violating his oath of office.

From Washington Times • Feb. 25, 2021

Wanamaker is trying to rescind his guilty plea to reckless endangerment and false swearing charges in the teeth case.

From Washington Times • Aug. 10, 2015

For lack of teaching they had remained in their idolatries as before, without giving up usury, oppression, false swearing, and the feuds in which they had been brought up to have perpetual enmities.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 by Abreu, Antonio Alvarez de