Faux
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In old English lew. Falso; counterleit. Faux action, a false action.
Litt. § 688.
Faue money, counterfeit money.
St. Westm.1,¢.15.
Faux peys, false weights. Britt. ec.
20.
Faux serement, a false oath.
St. Westm. 1, c. 38.
In French law. A faisification or fraudulent alteration or suppression of a thing by words, by writings, or by acts without either Biret. “Fauxcmay be waderstood in three ways. In its most extended sense it is the alteration of truth, with or withont intention; it is nearly aynonymous with ‘lying.’ In a less extended sense, it is the alteration of truth, accompanied with fraud, matitio veritatis cum doto facta. And lastly, in a narrow, or rathor the legal, sense of the word, when itis aquestion to know if the faux baa crime, it is the fraudulent alicrution of the truth in those cases ascertained and puaished by the law.” Toulier, t.
9, n. 188.
In the civil law. The frardulent alteration ofthe truth. Thesame with the Latin Salsum or crimen falsi.