Every person who shall willfully swear falsely to any statement in an affidavit made by him or her, by means of which affidavit a writ of arrest or attachment shall have issued and been served by arrest or attachment, shall be deemed guilty of perjury.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 9-5-22
False swearing in affidavit to support writ
C.P.A. 1905, § 522; G.L. 1909, ch. 299, § 26; G.L. 1923, ch. 349, § 26; G.L. 1938, ch. 514, § 19; G.L. 1956, § 9-5-22.
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