 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 788 pages
...oath to be administered, that he will testify truly, who wilfully and contrary to such an oath states any material matter which he does not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury. As already mentioned, the petitioner is charged with having committed the alleged offence before a... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1875 - 842 pages
...oath to be administered, that he will testify truly, who wilfully and contrary to such an oath states any material matter which he does not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury. As already mentioned, the petitioner is charged with having committed the alleged offence before a... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 722 pages
...oath to be administered, that he will testify truly, — wilfully and contrary to such oath states any material matter which he does not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury. As already mentioned, the petitioner is charged with having committed the alleged offence before a... | |
 | Rollin Augustus Ives - Military law - 1879 - 514 pages
...any case in which a law of the United States 1 2 East, PC 852. a Wharton, § 1418. 2 2 East, PC 855, authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will...which he does not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury.1 (3) That the party swore willfully, absolutely and falsely. In other words the perjury must... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 1878 pages
....and corrupt perjury." The United Stales statute defining perjury is as follows: "Every person who, having taken an oath before a competent tribunal,...not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury, and ahall be punished" in a prescribed way. Rev. St. § 5392. And section 5396 of the Revised Statutes... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 1910 pages
...that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, declaration, or certificate by him subscribed is true, willfully,...subscribes any material matter which he does not believe 1o be true, is guilty of perjury.'' A trial was had at the last January term of this court, when the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 1128 pages
...material * * * declaration * * * by him subscribed is true, wilfully, and contrary to such oath * * * subscribes any material matter, which he does not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury," etc. The alleged crime is predicated of a nonmineral affidavit accompanying a homestead application.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1108 pages
...the United Slates authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify truly, willfully states any material matter which he does not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury, an indictment failing to charge that defendant took an oath, alleged to be false, "willfully," was... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 2038 pages
...depose, or certify truly, • * • shall willfully and contrary to such oath state or subscribe anv material matter which he does not believe to be true, Is guilty of perjury." It can scarcely be contended that an indictment charging perjury simply in the language of the statute... | |
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Whoever— (1) having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony,... 
