METUS PERJURII

metus perjurii (mee-t[schwa]s p[schwa]r-juur-ee-I). [Law Latin] Scots law. The fear of perjury. “On this ground the evidence of the parties to a cause, and that of their relatives, was formerly excluded. It was feared that their own, or their relatives’, interest in the result of the cause might lead them to give false evidence, in […]