Legal Term for Signing A Document That is Believed To Be Untrue
<p>Is there a term in Law for when someone signs a document as true when said individual is under the belief that the contents of the document are untrue?</p>

<p>For example, if I was asked to sign a document that says "the sky is green", and I saw the sky that morning and it was blue. Signing this document would amount to (insert term here).</p>

<p>If you are under oath it is called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perjury" rel="nofollow">perjury</a>. If you are not under oath it is called lying.</p>

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  <p>Signing this document would amount to <strong>free speech</strong>.</p>
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<p>There are circumstances, as comments have said, where we are not allowed to lie. But these circumstances are circumscribed - such as speech under penalty of perjury, attesting to facts under a regulatory rule (signing certain financial documents), etc. Of course, lies about facially mundane things like your address or how long you've lived a place are fraudulent if circumstances align. </p>

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