PERISH

To come to an end; to cease to be; to die. PERISHABLE ordinarily means subject to speedy and natural decay. But, where the time contemplated is nece arily long, the term may embrace property liable, merely to material depreciation in value from other causes than such decay. Webster v. Peck, 31 Conn. 495: -Perishable goods. Goods which decay and lose their value if not speedily put to their intended use. Perjuri sunt qui servatis verb is juramenti decipiunt aures eorum qui accipiunt. 3 Inst. 166. They are perjured, who, preserving the words of an oath, deceive the ears of those who receive it. PERJU°R.Y. In criminal law. The wlllful a ertion as· to a matter of fact, opinion, belief, or knowledge, made by a witne in a judicial proceeding as part of his evidence, either upon oath or in any form allowed by law to be substituted'· for an oath, whether such evidence 1s given in open court, or in an affidavit, or otherwise, such a ertion being known to such witne to be false, and being intended by him to mislead the court, jury, or person holding the proceeding. 2 Whart. Crim. Law, § r1244; Herring v. State, 119 Ga. 709, 46 S. E. 876; Beecher v. Anderson, 45 Mich. 543, 8 N. W. 539; Schmidt v. [s. 899]