perjury

intentional act of swearing a false oath or of falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth
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perjury

Summary

perjury is a legal term or legal concept[1]. perjury ranks in the top 2% of legal_term_or_legal_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,045 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • perjury's instance of is recorded as legal term or legal concept[3].
  • perjury's main regulatory text is recorded as Strafgesetzbuch[4].
  • perjury's main regulatory text is recorded as Polish Penal Code[5].
  • perjury's GND ID is recorded as 4169344-9[6].
  • perjury's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85046995[7].
  • perjury's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119835040[8].
  • perjury's subclass of is recorded as crime[9].
  • perjury's subclass of is recorded as favors[10].
  • perjury's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 6101[11].
  • perjury's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05xcd[12].
  • perjury's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Perjury[13].
  • perjury's Commons gallery is recorded as Perjury[14].
  • perjury's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 364.134[15].
  • perjury's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10644529[16].
  • perjury's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 7328[17].
  • perjury's Iconclass notation is recorded as 44G159[18].
  • perjury's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0200620[19].
  • perjury's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[20].
  • perjury's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[21].
  • perjury's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[22].
  • perjury's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/perjury[23].
  • perjury's practiced by is recorded as perjurer[24].
  • perjury's NE.se ID is recorded as mened[25].
  • perjury's Catholic Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 11696a[26].
  • perjury's Quora topic ID is recorded as Perjury[27].

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Designation and Status

perjury's instance of is recorded as legal term or legal concept[3].

Why It Matters

perjury ranks in the top 2% of legal_term_or_legal_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,045 views/month).[2] perjury has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] perjury is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Quora. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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