The Virtues Of Honesty
Honesty is to be honest, truthful and sincere. To be honest is to be fair and righteous in speech and act, not to lie, not to cheat or steal.
The are two types of solemn or sworn statements of honesty in society today, an affidavit and an oath.
An affidavit is a voluntary written statement sworn before an officer qualified to administer an oath. Both the person making the affidavit (that is, swearing to the truth of the facts contained in the document) and the witnessing officer (a judge, a commissioner of deeds, or a notary public) are usually required to sign the document. Affidavits are quite frequently used in preliminary legal proceedings, for example, in filing, or starting, a ...
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that official assumes office. The taking of an oath generally implies some legal or moral sanction for failing to carry out one's sworn pledge. A trial witness, for example, may be charged with the crime of perjury for lying under oath.
When someone swears to a statement under oath or on an affidavit and the statement is found to be false it is called perjury and is considered a breach of oath. Perjury in some states in the United States of America is also known as a felony.
Perjury in criminal law is a willful false statement made under oath with respect to a material matter, either by a witness at a trial, in an affidavit affecting title to property in a legal proceeding or in matters which an oath is authorized or required by law.
To use perjury in a legal proceeding, it is not necessary that the offender know the statement would affect the determination of the case in which it is taken. It is sufficient if the statement might have affected such a proceeding. A ...
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untrue and known to be untrue, that it was made with intent to induce and to deceive the other party to act upon it, and that the other party relied on it and was induced to act or not to act, to his or her injury or damage.
In equality of right, fraud includes any act concealment or omission, which is involving a breach of an equitable of legal trust or duty, which ends and/or results in injury to or disadvantaging another. One example of fraud in the above sense is the act of insolvent (unable to pay debts, relation to insolvency) who contrives to give one creditor an advantage over the other creditors and competitors. Fraud can also be constructive, which is, deemed fraud by ...
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