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Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-16-706

Irregularity in oath

Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1.

It is no defense to prosecution for perjury or aggravated perjury that:

(1) The oath was administered or taken in an irregular manner, or that there was some irregularity in the appointment or qualification of the person who administered the oath; or

(2) The document was not sworn to if the document contained a recital that it was made under oath, the defendant knew or should have known of the recital when the defendant signed the document, and the document contained the signed jurat of a public servant or notary public authorized to administer oaths.

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.