Falsa Demonstratio
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In the civil law. False designation; erroneous description of a person or thing in a written instrument.
Inst. 2, 20, 30.
Falsa demonstratio non nocet, cum de corpore (persona) constat. [alse description does not injure or vitiate, provided the thing or person intended has once been sufficiently described, Mere false deseription does not make an instrument inoperative. Broom, Max. 629; 6 Term, 676; Ll Mees. & W. 189; 2 Story, 291. Fals2) demonstratione legatum non perimi. A bequest is not rendered void by an erroneous description.
Inst. 2, 20, 30; Broom, Max. 645.
Falsa grammatica non vitiat concessionem
False or bad grammar doves not vitiate a grant.
Shep. Touch. 55; 9 Coke, 48a.
Neither false Latin nor false English will make a deed void when the intent of the parties doth plainly appear.
Shep. ‘Touch. 87.