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Falsus

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. False, erroneous; fraudulent. Applied to persons and things. Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus. False in one thing, false in every thing.

Story, J., 1 Sumner's R. 329, 356.

Where a party is clearly shown to have embezzled one article of property, it is a ground of presumption that he may have embezzled others also. Id. ibid.