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False Swearing

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In English law

A misdemeanor consisting of making a willfully false oath, but not in a judicial proceeding, by which circumstance it is distipguished from perjury.