2025 Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 5. SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Subchapter VI. Offenses Against Public Administration
§ 1221. Perjury in the third degree; class A misdemeanor.

Universal Citation:
11 DE Code § 1221 (2025)
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§ 1221. Perjury in the third degree; class A misdemeanor.

A person is guilty of perjury in the third degree when the person swears falsely.

Perjury in the third degree is a class A misdemeanor.

11 Del. C. 1953, § 1221;  58 Del. Laws, c. 497, § 1;  67 Del. Laws, c. 130, § 8;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 
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