Legal Definition and Related Resources of Lie

An untruth Deliberately told; the uttering or acting of that which is false for the purpose of deceiving; intentional misstatement. To subsist; exist ; to be proper or available. Thus the phrase an action will no: lie means that an action cannot be sustained, or that there is no ground upor. which to found the action.

(Be sustainable), verb

• be allowable
• be appropriate
• be available
• be established
• be evident
• be fitting
• be permissible
• be permitted
• be possible
• be proper
• be suitable
• be suited
• be supportable
• be warranted
• exist
• extend
• stand

(Falsify), verb

• be dishonest
• be untruthful
• bear false witness
• belie
• commit perjury
• concoct
• counterfeit
• deceive
• delude
• deviate from the truth
• dissimulate
• equivocate
• fable
• fabricate
• falsify
• fib
• fool
• forswear
• invent
• mentiri
• misguide
• misinform
• mislead
• misrepresent
• misstate
• palter
• perjure oneself
• pervert
• pretend
• prevaricate
• represent falsely
• swear falsely
• tell a falsehood
• tell an untruth
• Associated Concepts: false testimony
• lie detector
• perjury

noun

• calumny
• deceit
• deception
• distortion
• fabrication
• false statement
• falsehood
• falsification
• falsity
• falsum
• fiction
• fraud
• intentional distortion
• intentional exaggeration
• intentional misstatement
• intentional untruth
• invention
• mendacity
• mendacium
• misrepresentation
• misstatement
• perversion
• prevarication
• untruth
• Associated Concepts: defamation
• libel
• perjury
• polygraph test
• slander

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Lie in Historical Law

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Lie on the file in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of lie on the file.

Resources

See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Work
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• lie on the file in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• lie on the file in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis