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Example sentences for "false oath"

  • It was notorious that he had, about the year 1770, taken in the most solemn manner a false oath.

  • Any accident that happens to a man who has been known to take a false oath, or to his children or grandchildren, is carefully recorded in memory, and attributed to this sole cause.

  • One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.

  • The Rabbis also maintained that a false oath, even if made unconsciously, involves man in sin, and is punished as such.

  • Thus among the Gaika tribe of the Kafirs a person may be fined for taking a false oath in a law case (Brownlee, in Maclean, Compendium of Kafir Laws and Customs, p.

  • She answered: ‘I was there when the priest LeBelle made the plot, and promised to give his sister two-eighties of good land if she would swear a false oath—and accuse him of a crime which that woman said he had not even thought of with her.

  • Have you the power to forgive a false oath?

  • Defn: One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.

  • To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations.

  • Law) Defn: The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.

  • Law) Defn: To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.

  • The first charge is that he transmitted a false oath.

  • One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.

  • He never forgot that he had sworn a false oath, and it was to no purpose that Belisante reminded him of all the ill deeds done by the steward to him and others.

  • Joy at meeting gave new life to Sir Amys, and, sitting up, he told his friend all his woes, and how he dare not fight with a false oath on his conscience.

  • Fight Sir Amys could not, with the weight of a false oath on his soul, yet to run away were to confess all, and leave Belisante to bear her father's anger alone.

  • To RAP To take a false oath; also to curse.

  • To kiss one's thumb instead of the book; a vulgar expedient to avoid perjury in taking a false oath.


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