| Lebbeus Armstrong - 1882 - 316 páginas
...added. This, as {riven by Sir Edward Coke, m Blackstone, on Public Wrongs, is: "A. crime committed when a lawful oath is administered in some judicial proceeding...matter material to the issue or point in question." "The law," adds Blackstone, (in loco) "takes no notice of any per£" iry but such as is committed in... | |
| John Frederick Haynes, Thomas A. Nelham - 1883 - 474 páginas
...lawful oath is administered to him in some proceeding in a court of justice of competent jurisdiction, swears wilfully, absolutely and falsely in a matter material to the issue or point in question. Perjury is a misdemeanour. The punishment is penal servitude from five to seven years, or fine or imprisonment... | |
| Edward Henslowe Bedford - 1884 - 318 páginas
...declarations substituted for extra judicial oaths ? Perjury may be defined as a crime committed when a lawful oath is administered in some judicial proceeding...matter material to the issue or point in question. The perjury ought to be absolute, corrupt, and wilful, and material. The statute above alluded to is... | |
| William Blackstone - 1884 - 724 páginas
...willful and corrupt perjury: which is defined by Sir Edward Coke, (f) to be a crime committed when a lawful oath is administered, in some judicial proceeding, to a person who swears willfully, absolutely, and falsely, in a matter material to the issue or point in question. The law... | |
| Seymour Frederick Harris - 1885 - 516 páginas
...administered to him in some proceeding in a court of justice of competent jurisdiction, swears willfully, absolutely, and falsely in a matter material to the issue or point in question.^) Such is the definition of perjury at common law. The qualification with which it must be taken will... | |
| 1915 - 1132 páginas
...when a lawful oath ia administered, in some judicial proceeding, to a person who swears willfully, absolutely, and falsely in a matter material to the issue or point in question." And he adds: "The law takes no notice of any perjury but Kuril as is committed in some court of justice,... | |
| 1886 - 808 páginas
...212; 2 Hawk. c. 25, sec. 115; 5 TR 162. Perjury is denned by Lord Coke to be a crime committed when a lawful oath is administered in some judicial proceeding to a person who swears willfully, absolutely and falsely, in a matter material to the issue or point in question: 3 lust.... | |
| Illinois - 1887 - 2194 páginas
...matter where by law an oath or affirmation is required, who shall swear or affirm willfully, corruptly and falsely, in a matter material to the issue or point in question, or shall suborn any other person to swear or attirm, as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of perjury... | |
| 1888 - 878 páginas
...matter where by law an oath or affirmation is required, who shall swear or affirm willfully, corruptly, and falsely in a matter material to the issue or point in question, or shall suborn any other person to swear or affirm as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of perjury... | |
| Tennessee. Supreme Court, William Wilcox Cooke, Joseph Brown Heiskell, Jere Baxter, Benjamin James Lea, George Wesley Pickle, Charles Theodore Cates, Frank Marian Thompson, Charles Le Sueur Cornelius, Roy Hood Beeler - 1889 - 884 páginas
...administered, in some judicial proceeding or due course of justice, to a person who swears willfully, absolutely, and falsely in a matter material to the issue or point in question." 3 Greenleaf's Ev., Sec. 188; 2 Bishop's Cr. L., Sec. 980; Whartoivs Cr. L. (3d Ed.), p. 746. By our... | |
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