Black's Law Dictionary

In old English law. A hill or down by the sea-side. Co. Litt. 5b; Domesday.

See Folc-Land.

In Scotch law. To lose. To fall from a right is to lose or forfeit it. 1 Kames, Eq. 228.

In Spanish law. The final decree or judgment given in a controversy a law.

In English law. A quantity of land six ells square superficial measure.

Land plowed, but not sown, and left uncultivated for a time after successive crops.

In old English law. An unexplained term for seme particular kind of land. Cowell.

In the civil law. Falae designation; erroneous descrip

A bequest is not rendered void by an erroneous description. Inst. 2, 20, 30; Broom, Max. 645.

False description does not injure or vitiate, provided the thing or person intended has once bcen sufficiently described. Mere false description does not make an instrument inopera

False or bad grammar does 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

In the civil law. False or counterfeit money. Cod. 9, 24.

False spelling does not vitiate a deed. Shep. Touch. 55, 87 ; 9 Coke, 48a; Wing. Max. 19.

In old English law. To counterfeit. Quia falsavit sigillum, because he counterfeited the seal. Bract fol. 276b.

A counterfeiter. Townsh. PI. 260.

Untrue; erroneous; deceitful; contrived or calculated to deceive and injure. Uniawful. In law, this word means something, more than untrue; it means something designedly untrue and

See Feigned Action.

In pleading. A sham answer; one which is false in the sense of being a mere pretense set up in bad faith and without color of fact Howe v. Elwell, 57 App. Div. 357, 67 N. Y. Supp.

Personating the master or mistress of a servant, or any representative of such master or mistress, and giving a false character to the servant is an offense punishable in England w

where a man claimed more than bis due, and was amerced and punished for the same. Manw. c. 25; Tomlins. Defined under False in Black's Law Dictionary.

In Spanish law. Falsity; an alteration of the truth. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit 26, 1. 1. Deception; fraud. Id. pt. 3, tit 32, 1. 21.

In banking law. An entry in the books of a bank which is intentionally made to represent what is not true or does not exist, with intent either to deceive its officers or a bank ex

In the law of evidence. A feigned, simulated, or fabricated fact; a fact not founded in truth, but existing only in assertion : the deceitful sembiance of a fact.

A statement or assertion known to be untrue, and intended to deceive. A willful act or declaration contrary to the trnth. Putnam v. Osgood, 51 N. H. 207. In Scotch law. A fraudulen

See Imprisonment.

A counterfeit; one made in the similitude of a genuine instrument and purporting on its face to be such. U. S. v. Howell, 11 Wall. 435, 20 L. Ed. 195; U. S. v. Owens (a G.) 37 Fed.

In old English law. A writ which lay when a false judgment had been pronounced in a court not of reconi, as a county court, court baron, etc. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 17, 18. In old Frenc

When law proceedings were written in Latin, if a word were significant though not good Latin, yet an indictment, declaration, or fine should not be made void by it; but if the word

Lights and signals falsely and maliciously displayed for the purpose of bringing a vessel into danger.

Spreading false news, whereby discoid may grow bat ween the queen of England and her people, or the great men of the realm, or which may produce other mischiefs, still seems to be

See Perjury.

The criminal offense of falsely representing some other person and acting in the character thus unlawfully assumed, in older to deceive others, and thereby gain some profit or adva

A sham plea. See infra. And see People v. McCumber, 18 N. Y. 321, 72 Am. Dec. 515; Pierson v. Evans, 1 Wend. (N. Y.) 30.

See False.

A deceitful representation, or one contrary to the fact, made knowingly and with the design and effect of inducing the other party to enter into the contract to which it relates.

A return to a writ, in which the officer charged with it falsely reports tnat he served it, when he did not, or makes some other false or incorrect statement, whereby injury result

The misdemeanor committed in English law by a person who swears falsely before any person authorized to administer an oath upon a matter of public concern, under such circumstances

In criminal law. A false document or sign of the existence of a fact, used with intent to defraud, for the purpose of obtaining money or property. State v. Renick, 33 Or. 584, 56 P

An untrue verdict Formerly, if a jury gave a false verdict, the party injured by it might sue out and prosecute a writ of attaint against them, either at common law or on the stafu

False weights and measures are such as do not comply with the standard prescribed by the slate or government, or with the custom prevailing in the place and business in which they

Fraudulent subornation or concealment, with design to darken or hide the truth, and make things appear otherwise than they are. It is committed (1) by words, as when a witness swea

In equity practice. The showing an item in the debit of an account to be either wholly false or in some part erroneous. 1 Story, Eq. Jur. § 525. And see Phillips v. Belden, 2 Edw.

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 appcaiance t

A high offense against public justice, punishable in England by 24 & 25 Vint. c. 98, §§ 27, 28, and in the United States, generally, by statute.

In Scotch law. Faise making; forgery. "Falsing of evidentis1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 85. Making or proving false. —Falsing of dooms. In Scotch law. The proving the injustice, fal

In Scotch law. The proving the injustice, falsity, or error of the doom or'sentence of a court. Tomlins; Jacob. The reversal of a sentence or judgment. Skene. An appeal. BelL

A forger; a counterfeiter. Hov. 424.

A writ which formerly lay against the sheriff who had execution of process for false returning of writs. Reg. Jud. 43b.

Lat. In the civil law. A false or forged thing; a fraudulent simulation; a fraudulent counterfeit or imitation, such as a forged signature or instrument. Also falsification, which

Lat. False; fraudnient; er-roncous. Deceitful; mistaken.

False in one thing, false in everything. Where a party is clearly shown to have embezzled one article of property, it is a ground of presumption that he may have embezzled others a

Lat. Fame; character; reputation; report of common opinion.

A killer of reputation; a slanderer.

3 Bulst. 226. Fame, faith, and eyesight do not suffer a cheat

2 Inst. 52. Report, which induces suspicion, ought to arise from good and grave men; not, indeed, from malevolent and malicious men, but from' cautious and credible persons; not on

In Roman law. A household; a family. On the composition of the Roman family, see Agnati; Cognati; and see Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 144.

Persons of the king's household. The ancient title of the "six clerks" of chancery in England. Crabb, Com. Law, 184; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 249, 251.

In Roman law. An intermediate person who purchased the aggregate, inheritanco when sold per œs et libram, in the process of making a will under the Twelve Tables. This purchaser wa

In Roman law. An action for the partition of the aggregate succession of a familia, where that devolved upon co-hœredes. It was also applicable to enforce a contribution towards th

A collective body of persons who live in one house and under one head or management. Jarboe v. Jarboe, 106 Mo. App.i459, 79 S. W. 1162; Dodge v. Boston & P. R. Corp, 154 Mass. 299,

A term denoting an agreement between a father and his children, or between the heirs of a deceased father, to dispose of property, or to partition it in a different manner than tha

A Bible containing a record of the births, marriages, and deaths of the members of a family.

An institution of the laws of Louisiana, being a council of the relatives (or, if there are no relatives, of the friends) of a minor, for the purpose of advising as to his affairs

This could belong only to a Roman citizen who was a "man in his own right," (homo sui juris.) Mackeld. Rom. Law, §§ 133, 144. In old English law. A household; the body of household

A term of practically the same signification as "family arrangement," q. v. supra. See Willey v. Hodge, 104 Wis. 81, 80 N. W. 75, 76 Am. St. Rep. 852.

A libelous writing. A term of the civil law denoting that species of injuria which corresponds nearly to libel or slander.

In the civll and old English law. Relating to or affecting character or reputation; defamatory; slanderous. —Famosns libellus. A libelous writing. A term of the civil law denoting

Fr. In French marine law. A large lantern, fixed upon the highest part of a vessel's stern.

Persons pretending to be inspired, and being a general name for Quakers, Anabaptists, and all other sectaries, and factious dissenters from the Church of England. (St 13 Car. II. c

In Spanish law. A measure of land varying in different provinces, but in the Spanish settlements in America consisting of 6,400 square varas or yards.

A Hindu term for a poor man, mendicant; a religious beggar.

In Scotch law. A traveler or merchant stranger. Skene.

In old English law. A bundle or pack; a fardel. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 22, § 10.

In old English law. The fourth part of a yard-land. Noy says an eighth only, because, according to him, two fardels make a nook, and four nooks a yard-land. Wharton.

The fourth part of an acre of land. Spelman.

A voyage or passage by water; also the money paid for a passage either by land or by water. Cowell. The price of passage, or the sum paid or to be paid for carrying a passenger. Ch

A mill; a toll of meal or flout. Jacob; Spelman.

Money paid by tenants in lieu of a heriot. It was often applied to the best chattel, as distingnished from heriot, the best beast. Cowell.

Whoremongers and adulterers.

n. A certain amount of provision reserved as the rent of a messuage. Spelman. Rent generally which is reserved on a lease; when it was to be paid in money, it was called, "blanche

1. The lessee of a farm. It is said that every lessee for Ilfe or years, although it be but of a small house and land, is called "farmer." This word implies no mystery, excopt it b

An unlawful game of cards, in which all the other players play against the banker or dealer, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pa

Lat. An ill-composed book centaining a collection of miscellaneous subjects not properly associated nor scientifically arranged. Wharton.

The fourth part of an English peimy. —Farthing of gold. An ancient English coin, containing in value the fourth part of a noble.

An ancient English coin, containing in value the fourth part of a noble.

The ancient appellation of Serjeants' Inn, Chancery lane.

Lat. Right; justice; the divine law. 3 Bl. Comm. 2; Calvin.

In old English law. A faggot of wood.

In Georgia, a "fast" bill of exceptions is one which may be taken in injunction suits and similar cases, at such time and in such manner as to bring the case up for review with gre

A day of fasting and penitence or of mortification by religious abstinence. See 1 Chit. Archb. Pr. (12th Ed.) 160, et seq.

Men in repute and substance; pledges, sureties, or bondsmen, who, according to the Saxon polity, were fast bound to answer for each other's peaceable behavior. Enc. Lond.

See Estate.

In Roman law. Lawful Dies fasti, lawful days; days on which justice could lawfuily be administered by the prætor. See Dies Fasti.

8 Inst. 14. He who flees judgment confesses his guilt.

The male parent He by whom a child is begotten. As used in law, this term may (according to the context and the nature of the instrument) include a putative as well as a legal fath

The father of one's wife or husband. —rFntative father. The alleged or reputed father of an illegitimate child. State v. Nestaval, 72 Minn. 415, 75 N. W. 725.

A nautical measure of sir -feet in length. Occasionally used as a superficial measure of land and in mining, and in that case it means a square fathom or thirty-six square feet Nah

A whore. Du Fresne.

In old English law. Fatuity; idiocy. Reg. Orig. 266.

Lat. Fate; a superhuman power ; an event or cause of loss, beyond human foresight or means of prevention.