False Judgment
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Lai. falsum judidum; breve defalso judicio.'\ In English law. A writ which lies to the courts at Westminster to reverse the judgment of some inferior court not of record. 3 BL Com. 84, 406, F. N. B. 18. Finch, L. 484.
In old French law
An appeal of false judgment was where the party against whom a judgment was given, charged the judges or peers of the court with pronouncing a false judgment, and thereupon usually appealed or challenged them to the combat. Esprit des Lois^ lir.
28, c. 27.