subornation of perjury

1. 1.

   (law) inducing someone to make a false oath as part of a judicial proceeding

   “to prove subordination of perjury you must prove the perjury and also prove that the perjured statement was procured by the accused suborner who knew that it would be false”

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Questions about subornation of perjury

What does subornation of perjury mean?

subornation of perjury means "(law) inducing someone to make a false oath as part of a judicial proceeding".

Is subornation of perjury a common word?

subornation of perjury is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.