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The crime of intentionally lying after being duly sworn (to tell the truth) by a notary public<\/a>, court clerk or other official. This false statement may<\/a> be made in testimony in court, administrative hearings, depositions, answers to interrogatories<\/a>, as well as by signing or acknowledging a written legal<\/a> document (such as affidavit<\/a>, declaration<\/a> under penalty of perjury<\/a>, deed<\/a>, license application, tax return) known to contain false information<\/a>. Although it is a crime, prosecutions for perjury<\/a> are rare, because a defendant<\/a> will argue he\/she merely made a mistake or misunderstood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The crime of intentionally lying after being duly sworn (to tell the truth) by a notary public<\/a>, court clerk or other official. This false statement may<\/a> be made in testimony in court, administrative hearings, depositions, answers to interrogatories<\/a>, as well as by signing or acknowledging a written legal<\/a> document (such as affidavit<\/a>, declaration<\/a> under penalty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"glossary-categories":[],"glossary-tags":[],"glossary-languages":[],"class_list":["post-7269","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"post_title":"Perjury","post_content":"\n

The crime of intentionally lying after being duly sworn (to tell the truth) by a notary public, court clerk or other official. This false statement may be made in testimony in court, administrative hearings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, as well as by signing or acknowledging a written legal document (such as affidavit, declaration under penalty of perjury, deed, license application, tax return) known to contain false information. Although it is a crime, prosecutions for perjury are rare, because a defendant will argue he\/she merely made a mistake or misunderstood.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.trainingpips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/7269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.trainingpips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.trainingpips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app.trainingpips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/app.trainingpips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/7269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.trainingpips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app.trainingpips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-categories?post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app.trainingpips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-tags?post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-languages","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app.trainingpips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-languages?post=7269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}