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Quotation dates: 1498, 1551-1631
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Perjury, -jurie, n. Also: perjurii, parjurie. [ME. and e.m.E. perjury (1387–8), pariury (1477), AF. parjurie (1292), rare OF. parjurie, L. perjūri-um: cf. Perjur(e n.] Perjury.(1) 1498 Reg. Morton II. 251.
Undir the payne of defamatioune inhabilite and perjurie 1552–3 Lochwinnoch Par. 44. 1556–7 Dundee B. Ct. III. fol. 109 (15 Mar.).
Periury 1558 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 308 (see Infamité n.). 1574 Bk. Old Edinb. C. VI. 61.
Vnder the pane of periurie and defaimatioun of the falare 1599 Colquhoun Chart. 175.(2) 1551 Hamilton Catechism 98.
Gyf thay … in bying or sellyng use desait … parjurie [etc.] … thay committ gret syn 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 29.
And ressauit sic pryce for hir as tresoun and perjurie that [etc.] c1575 Balfour Pract. 288 marg.
The pane of assisouris convict of perjurie or wilful errour c1575 Ib. 531.
Perjurie punisht be confiscatioun of all gudis movabill [etc.] c1575 Ib. 606.
How that perjurie is now commounlie usit upon the bordouris 1576 Glasgow B. Rec. (M.C.) 63.
Periurii 1580 King's Confession in Facs. Nat. MSS. III. lxx.
His dispensationeis with solemnet othes periuries [etc.] 1593–4 St. A. Kirk S. 778.
For feir of perjurie 1605 Criminal Trials II. 454 (see Maneswering vbl. n. a (2)). 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. ii. 149 b.
Bigamie is punished as perjurie 1612 Criminal Trials III. 242. 1622-6 Bisset I. 293/15. 1631 Justiciary Cases I. 155.
Upone hir manifest falset blasphemie periurie and abuseing uith hir … calumneis
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