Falsify

To prove that an item in an account before the court, which is Inserted to the debit of the person falsifying, should have been omitted. When a bill to open an account has been filed, the plaintiff is sometimes allowed to surcharge and falsify such account; and if anything has been inserted that is a wrong charge, he is at liberty to show it; and that is a falsification, 2 Ves. 565; Armstrong v. Toler, 11 Wheat (U. S.) 237, 6 L. Ed. 468. See SUBCIIABGE, In Criminal Law. To alter or make false. The alteration or making false of a record is punishable at common law or by statute in the states, and, if of records of the United States courts, by act of congress of April 30, 1790; U. S. Rev. Stat § 6394. In Practice. To prove a thing to be false.

Co. Lltt. 104 b.