Perjury
idea · 10 works · 10 mentions · 21 anchored passages
perjury · false witness · bearing false witness · convicted of perjury · false · false evidence · false witnesses · grievous sin of perjury · lying · manifest perjury
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1 expressionPerjury and false testimony4 mentions
Against Boeotus II (Greek) · Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera (Greek) · On the Estate of Philoctemon (Greek) · Against Callimachus (Greek)
and he is so unscrupulous that, if he has no witnesses to prove a fact, he will say that it is well known to you, men of the jury,—a trick to which all those have recourse who have no just argument to advance.
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Against Boeotus II
False swearing and unreliable testimony alleged against opponents.
and he is so unscrupulous that, if he has no witnesses to prove a fact, he will say that it is well known to you, men of the jury,—a trick to which all those have recourse who have no just argument to advance.
For instance, I have not only had the misfortune in the beginning that Plangon, the mother of these men, by deceit and manifest perjury, compelled my father to bring himself to acknowledge them, and that consequently I was robbed of two-thirds of my inheritance;
The testimony they have borne is so patently false, that, whereas you all know that Boeotus by instituting proceedings forced my father against his will to acknowledge him these men, like witnesses to a summons—and only two of them—depose that he made a feast for this fellow on the tenth day!
Against Olympiodorus
The violation of sworn obligations, used both to explain the speaker's restraint and to condemn Olympiodorus.
The defendant himself knows well that he has sinned against me and sinned against the gods in whose name he swore, and that he is a perjurer.
However, had I done this, I should by that very act have perjured myself, for I had sworn and contracted with you to do in concert with you whatever should seem to us on consultation to be best.
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
The concept of false swearing and suborned testimony, repeatedly attributed to Stephanus in his prosecutions of Apollodorus and in his imprecations before the court.
He produced false witnesses to substantiate the calumnious charge that Apollodorus had been a debtor to the treasury for twenty-five years, and by making all sorts of accusations that were foreign to the indictment won a verdict against the decree.
However, since he was proved to have committed perjury and to have brought forward a false accusation, and was shown to have been hired by Cephisophon and Apollophanes to procure for pay the banishment or the disfranchisement of Apollodorus, he received but a few votes out of a total of five hundred, and left the court a perjured man and one with the reputation of a scoundrel.
The Rights of War and Peace
The offense of breaking a sworn or pledge-equivalent obligation.
So that where any form is substituted for an oath, the violation of it will be an act of perjury.
On the Estate of Dicaeogenes
The recurring charge of false sworn testimony, used throughout to explain how Dicaeogenes (III.) originally won his claim to the whole estate and how his associates and Leochares himself were subsequently convicted.
Thus we, the victims of perjury, lost our property;
he was convicted of perjury for giving evidence to this effect.
) produced, was our uncle's genuine will, were convicted of perjury.
On the Estate of Philoctemon
The accusation, repeated throughout the speech, that Androcles and his associates gave false sworn testimony regarding the legitimacy of Antidorus and his brother.
so that he is convicted of perjury not only by us but by his own acts.
it follows from this that Androcles has been proved to have committed perjury.
As it is, what clearer method is there of convicting him of perjury than by putting the following question to him:
On The Estate Of Pyrrhus
The crime of giving false sworn testimony in court; both Xenocles (in the earlier trial) and Nicodemus (in the present one) are accused of it regarding the legitimacy of Pyrrhus's alleged daughter.
Xenocles was convicted of perjury.
It has now been shown that it was immediately apparent to all at the time that Nicodemus committed perjury;
How could an accuser establish a charge of perjury more clearly than by adducing proofs from the actual conduct of my adversaries themselves and from all the laws of our state?
Against Callimachus
The offense of swearing false oaths or bearing false witness, exemplified by Callimachus's sworn testimony that a living woman was dead.
Who was ever more convincingly proved to be a giver of false testimony?
Who is more likely to present witnesses of events which have not occurred than my antagonist here, who himself has the hardihood to testify falsely for others?
The purpose of the penalty was this—that persons who had the effrontery to rake up old grudges should not only be convicted of perjury but also, not awaiting the vengeance of the gods, should suffer immediate punishment.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The sin and crime of perjury, recurring in both documents as a consequence of corrupt oaths and practices.
The multitude of monopolies and patents, drawing with them innumerable perjuries;
The imposing of oaths of various and trivial articles yearly upon churchwardens and sidesmen, which they cannot take without perjury, unless they fall at jars continually with their ministers and neighbours, and wholly neglect their own calling.
And if the said Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or any of the said Commissioners shall fail, or forbear so to issue out the said writs, according to the true meaning of this Act, then he or they respectively shall, beside the incurring of the grievous sin of perjury, be disabled, and become, by virtue of this Act, incapable, ipso facto, to bear his and their said offices respectively;
Anabasis
Violation of oath, treated as a grave wrong and a charge used to justify punishment.
Well, then, if Clearchus was really transgressing the truce in violation of his oaths, he has his deserts, for it is right that perjurers should perish;
Again, all whom he found to be perjurers and wrongdoers he would fear, regarding them as well armed, while those who were pious and practised truth he would try to make use of, regarding them as weaklings.
For it is those who are utterly without ways and means, who are bound by necessity, and who are rascals in any case, that are willing to accomplish an object by perjury to the gods and unfaithfulness to men.