The perjurer (under the Mosaic law) was to undergo tlio punishment which lie sought to bring noon his innocent neighbour by his perjury. This is a much more rational rule than that, of the English law, under which - murdor by perjury—the ivorst kind of miir- , der —is only punislfnble by, n term of penal f servitude, though the penalty for all other ■ kinds of murder' i 3 d">th,'—"Law ' Magnt zinc,''
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 86, 4 January 1908, Page 14
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