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A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[L. Lat. forisjurare.] To abjure, or renounce by oath. See Forisjurare. To swear falsely. But the word, in this sense, does not in itself import perjury.

Tompkins, J., 2 Johns. R. 10, 11. Cro. Jac. 190, 436.