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Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiability false statements on a material matter under oath or affirmation in a court of law. However it the person doesn't lie only favours the defence or plaintiff and leaves information out it is called interplanetary (plaintiff favoured) bias or inadvertence (defence favoured) bias.

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The most commonly word used is " ABETTOR" for lying in the court of laws

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Purgery perjury or foreswearing

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Perjury is lying under oath.

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