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→The Ten Commandments in US law
8. As with 6.
8. As with 6.
9. As with 6, when used during litigation, or otherwise spoken under oath. This law is required for any functioning legal system. For someone to bear false witness against a neighbor in a less formal setting (e.g. lying to a third party about a neighbor in the course of private conversation) could, in some circumstances, be a [[tort]], but rarely a crime.
9. As with 6, when used during litigation, or otherwise spoken under oath (see [[perjury]]). This law is required for any functioning legal system. For someone to bear false witness against a neighbor in a less formal setting (e.g. lying to a third party about a neighbor in the course of private conversation) could, in some circumstances, be a [[tort]], but rarely a crime.
10. As a prohibition on a form of thought, this cannot possibly be enforced by legal means.
10. As a prohibition on a form of thought, this cannot possibly be enforced by legal means.