False Personation

In criminal law. The offence of falsely personating another, or representing one's self to be another person, and acting in such assumed character, either with the view of obtaining some property or exercising some right belonging to such person, or with the view or effect of subjecting such person to some legal liability.

4 Steph. Com. 181, 200. 2 N. Y. Rev. St. [676,] 668, §§ 48, 60.