Editing Perjury (section)

=====Materiality=====

The requirement that the statement be material can be traced back to<ref>''[[Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice]]''. 1999. Paragraph 28-160 at page 2303. They cite 3 Inst 167.</ref> and has been credited to<ref>Smith, J. C, and Hogan, Brian. ''Criminal Law''. Sweet & Maxwell. 1965. Second Edition. Page 506.</ref> [[Edward Coke]], who said:

{{Blockquote|For if it be not material, then though it be false, yet it is no perjury, because it concerneth not the point in suit, and therefore in effect it is extra-judicial. Also this act giveth remedy to the party grieved, and if the deposition be not material, he cannot be grieved thereby.<ref>3 [[Institutes of the Lawes of England|Inst]] [https://archive.org/details/thirdpartinstit01cokegoog/page/n212 <!-- pg=166 --> 167]. This passage is quoted by Smith, J. C, and Hogan, Brian, ''Criminal Law'' (Sweet & Maxwell, 1965) (2nd Edition), p. 506.</ref>}}