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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.