Falsify
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Fr. fauxer; L. Lat. falsare, falsificare, falsum facere.] To prove false; to avoid or defeat.
Perk. 383.
Litt. sect.
149. Co. Litt. 104 b. 1 Co. 62 b.
To reverse or avoid, as a verdict, or judgment.
4 Bl. Com. 390. 4 Steph. Com. 456.
In equity practice
To show, in accounting before a master in chancery, that a charge has been inserted which is wrong, that is, either wholly false, or in some part erroneous.
Pulling on Merc. Accounts, 162. 1 Story's Eq. Jur. § 525.
In criminal law. To forge or counterfeit; to make false; to give a false appearance to a thing.
See Crimen falsi.