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
The first charge is that he transmitted a false oath.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Ingersoll, Robert Green
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
They never scruple at taking a false oath for the sake of any temporary advantage....
From Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures by Little, A. G. (Andrew George)
