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Definition of Subornation
1. Noun. Underhandedly or improperly inducing someone to do something improper or unlawful.
Specialized synonyms: Subornation Of Perjury
Derivative terms: Suborn
2. Noun. Perjured testimony that someone was persuaded to give.
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Suborn, Suborn
Definition of Subornation
1. n. The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.
Definition of Subornation
1. Noun. The act of suborning ¹
2. Noun. The procuring of someone to do a criminal act, especially to commit perjury ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subornation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subornation
Literary usage of Subornation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Supplement to A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law by John Henry Wigmore (1915)
"6, § 13 (no person to be convicted of perjury, or subornation thereof, "solely
upon the evidence of one witness as to the falsity of any statement alleged ..."
2. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Horace Smith, Alfred Percival Perceval Keep (1896)
"OF PERJURY 1 AND subornation OP PERJURY.2 At common law. ... (a) subornation of
perjury by the common law is an offence in procuring a man to take a false ..."
3. A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) by James Fitzjames Stephen (1887)
"subornation OF PERJURY. 3 subornation of perjury is procuring a person to ...
4 Perjury and subornation of perjury are misdemeanors, and every one who ..."
4. A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) by James Fitzjames Stephen (1883)
"2 subornation of perjury is procuring a person to commit a perjury, which he
actually commits in ... 4 Perjury and subornation of perjury are misdemeanors, ..."
5. Principles of the Criminal Law: A Concise Exposition of the Nature of Crime by Seymour Frederick Harris, Aviet Agabeg (1884)
"subornation OF PERJURY. subornation. The procuring another to take such a false oath
... The offence does not amount to subornation if that other does not ..."
6. Prosecution and Defense: Practical Directions and Forms for the Grand-jury by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1901)
"subornation OF PERJURY.l § 966. Actual and attempted.— Soliciting one to commit
perjury, where he refuses or from any other reason it is not committed, ..."
7. The Penal Code of California by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch (1872)
"Though the party charged with subornation of perjury knew that the testimony of a
... Every person whc execution or subornation of perjury, procurei of t by ..."
8. The Penal Code of the State of New York: In Force December 1, 1882, as by New York (State) (1902)
"subornation of perjury defined.—A person, who willfully procures or induces
another to commit perjury, is guilty of subornation of perjury. Stratton v. ..."
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