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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

In Old English Law. An unexplained term for some particular kind of land. Jacob, L. Dict. FALSA DEMONSTRATIO. In Civil Law. False designation; erroneous description of a person or a thing in a written instrument.

Inst. 2, 20, 30.

In construing a deed purporting to assure a property, if there be a description of the property sufficient to render certain what is intended, the addition of a wrong name or of an erroneous statement as to quantity, occupancy, locality, or an erroneous enumeration of particulars, will have no effect; [1898] 2 Ch. 551. See Demonstration; Latent Ambiguity; Will. FALSA DEMONSTRATIO NON NOCET. See Maxims; Demonstratio.