Definition of Perjury in legal context with real examples and illustrations for law students and advanced learners of English
/ˈpɜː.dʒər.i/ (noun)
Definition
the crime of telling lies in a court of law as a witness who gives testimonies and who is under oath to tell the truth, giving false evidence, lying under oath, falsehood, untruthfulness, lying, mendacity, equivocation, prevarication
Example
Perjury is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to an official proceeding. Like most other crimes in the common law system, to be convicted of perjury one must have had the intention to commit the act and to have actually committed the act. Further, statements that are facts cannot be considered perjury, even if they might arguably constitute an omission, and it is not perjury to lie about matters that are immaterial to the legal proceeding.
Source of example: https://en.wikipedia.org
Antonyms
Parts of speech
Verb: perjure yourself
Noun: perjurer
Adjective: perjured
