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Falsify

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

To disprove; to prove to be false or erroneous; to avoid or defeat; spoken of verdicts, appeals, etc. To counterfeit or forge; to make something false; to give a false appearance to anything.

In equity practice

To show, in accounting before a master in chancery, that a charge has been inserted which is wrong; that is, either wholly false or in some part erroneous.

Pull. Accts. 162; 1 Story, Eq. Jur. § 525.