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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>64321</law_id><section_number>18.2-436</section_number><catch_line>Inducing another to give false testimony; sufficiency of evidence</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="10">Crimes Against the Administration of Justice</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Perjury</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If any person procure or induce another to commit <span class="dictionary">perjury</span> or to give false <span class="dictionary">testimony</span> under <span class="dictionary">oath</span> in violation of any provision of this article, he shall be punished as prescribed in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="What deemed perjury; punishment and penalty" href="/18.2-434/">18.2-434</a>.
		In any <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span> under this section, it shall be sufficient to prove that the person alleged to have given false <span class="dictionary">testimony</span> shall have been procured, induced, counselled or advised to give such <span class="dictionary">testimony</span> by the <span class="dictionary">party</span> charged.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-277; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
