KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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PERMIT

PERINDE VALERE

Witherick, 29 Minn. 156, 12 N. W. 448; State v. Simons, 30 Vt. 620; Miller v. State, 15 Fla. 585; Clark v. Clark, 51 N. J. Eq. 404, 26 Atl. 1012; Hood v. State, 44 Ala. 81. Perjury shall consist in willfully, knowingly, absolutely, and falsely swearing, either with or without laying the hand on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God, or affirming, in a matter mate rial to the issue or point in question, in some judicial proceeding, by a person to whom a lawful oath or affirmation is administered. Code Ga. 1882, § 4460. Every person who, having taken an oath that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly before any competent tribunal officer, or per son, in any of the cases in which such an oath may by law be administered, willfully, and con trary to such oath, states as truth any material matter which he knows to be false, is guilty of perjury. Pen. Code Cal. § 118. The willful giving, under oath, in a judicial proceeding or course of justice, of false testi mony material to the issue or point of inquiry. 2 Bish. Crim. Law, § 1015. Perjury, at common law, is the "taking of a willful false oath by one who, being lawfully sworn by a competent court to depose the truth in any judicial proceeding, swears absolutely and falsely in a matter material to the point in issue, whether he believed or not." Comm. v. Powell, 2 Mete (Ky.) 10; Cothran v. State, 39 Miss. 541. It will be observed that, at common law, the crime of perjury can be comimitted only in the course of a suit or judicial proceeding. But statutes have very generally extended both the definition and the punishment of this offense to willful false swearing in many different kinds of affidavits and depositions, such as those re quired to be made in tax returns, pension pro ceedings, transactions at the custom house, and various other administrative or non-judicial pro ceedings. Fixed, enduring, abiding, not subject to change. Generally opposed in A domicile or fixed home, which the party may leave as his inter est or whim may dictate, but which he has no present intention of abandoning. Dale v. Irwin, 78 111. 170; Moffett v. Hill, 131 111. 239, 22 N. E 821; Berry v. Wilcox, 44 Neb. 82, 62 N. W. 249, 48 Am. St. Rep. 706.—Permanent building and loan association. One which issues its stock, not all at once or in series, but at any time when application is made therefor. Cook v. Equitable B. & L. Ass'n, 104 Ga. 814, 30 S. E. 911. As to permanent "Alimony," "Injunction," and "Trespass," see those titles. A license to do a thing; an authority to do an act which, without such authority, would have been unlawful. Negations of law, aris ing either from the law's silence or its ex press declaration. Ruth. Inst. b. 1, c. 1. PERMANENT. law to "temporary." —Permanent abode. PERMISSION. PERMISSIONS. which may be done. —Permissive use. See USE.— Permissive waste. See WASTE. A license or instrument grant ed by the officers of excise, (or customs,) certifying that the duties on certain goods PERMIT. PERMISSIVE. Allowed; allowable; that

of the sea," in a marine policy, and not those or dinary perils which every vessel must encounter. Hazard v. New England Mar. Ins. Co.- 8 Pet. 557, 8 L. Ed. 1043. dispensation granted to a clerk, who, being defective in capacity for a benefice or other ecclesiastical function, is de facto admitted to it. Cowell. Any point, space, or division of time. "The word 'period' has its etymo logical meaning, but it also has a distinctive signification, according to the subject with which it may be used in connection. It may mean any portion of complete time, from a thousand years or less to the period of a day; and when used to designate an act to be done or to be begun, though its completion may take an uncertain time, as, for instance, the act of exportation, it must mean the day on which the exportation commences, or it would be an unmeaning and useless word in its connection in the statute." Sampson v. Peas lee, 20 How. 579, 15 L. Ed. 1022. Recurring at fixed inter vals; to be made or done, or to happen, at successive periods separated by determined intervals of time; as periodical payments of interest on a bond. PERINDE VALERE. A PERIOD. PERIODICAL. PERIPHRASIS. Circumlocution; use of many words to express the sense of one. PERISHABLE ordinarily means subject to speedy and natural decay. But, where the time contemplated is necessarily long, the term may embrace property liable mere ly to material depreciation in value from other causes than such decay. Webster v. Peck, 31 Conn. 495. —Perishable goods. Goods which decay and lose their value if not speedily put to their in tended use. Ferjuri sunt qui servatis verbis jura menti decipiunt aures eornm qui acci piunt. 3 Inst. 166. They are perjured, who, preserving the words of an oath, de ceive the ears of those who receive it In criminal law. The will ful assertion as to a matter of fact, opinion, belief, or knowledge, made by a witness in a judicial proceeding as part of his evidence, either upon oath or in any form allowed by law to be substituted for an oath, whether such evidence is given in open court, or in an affidavit, or otherwise, such assertion be ing known to such witness to be false, and being intended by him to mislead the court, jury, or person holding the proceeding. 2 Whart. Crlm. Law, § 1244; Herring v. State, 119 Ga. 709, 46 S. E. 876; Beecher v. Ander son, 45 Mich. 543, 8 N. W. 539; Schmidt v. PERJURY. PERISH. To come to an end; to cease to be; to die.