Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Part I · Chapter 79 — Perjury
§ 1622. Subornation of perjury
Statutory text
Whoever procures another to commit any perjury is guilty of subornation of perjury, and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 80–645 · 62 Stat. 683
Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 1622
June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 774
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 774Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
Pub. L. 103–322 title XXXIII § 330016(1)(I) · 108 Stat. 1796
Substituted · 18 U.S.C. § 1622
Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $2,000”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $2,000”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(I) in sections 331, 482, 486, 499, 755, 873, 958, 1016, 1154, 1156, 1381, 1542, 1543, 1544, 1545, 1586, 1621, 1622, 1702, 1708, 1709, 1920, 1921, 1923, 2071, 2193, 2233, 2386, and 2424 by striking “not more than $2,000” each place it appears and inserting “under this title”;
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 232 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 126, 35 Stat. 1111).
The punishment prescribed in section 1621 of this title was substituted for the reference thereto.
Minor change was made in phraseology.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $2,000”.
Credits
1948–1994 · 2 acts
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 774
- 1994Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(I), , 108 Stat. 2147.
Show as published
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 774; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(I), , 108 Stat. 2147.)