Home › Entities › legal_term_or_legal_concept › perjury

perjury

intentional act of swearing a false oath or of falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth
Place legal_term_or_legal_concept Q310229
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

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 (2,272 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 is a type of crime[6].
  • perjury is a type of favors[7].
  • perjury's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Perjury[8].
  • perjury's Commons gallery is recorded as Perjury[9].
  • perjury's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10].
  • perjury's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[11].
  • perjury's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12].
  • perjury's practiced by is recorded as perjurer[13].

Body

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 (2,272 views/month).[2] perjury has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] perjury is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

Bernard Madoff Jeffrey Archer

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). perjury. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/perjury
MLA “perjury.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/perjury.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_perjury_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{perjury}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/perjury}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): perjury — https://4ort.xyz/entity/perjury (retrieved 2026-05-03)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/perjury · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Practiced by → perjurer
    Main regulatory text → Strafgesetzbuch, Polish Penal Code
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → crime, favors
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007565333805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.