Falsify

——In Chancery Practice. To prove that an item in an account before the court as complete, which is inserted to the debit of the person falsifying, should have been omitted. When a bill to open an account has been filed, the plaintiff is sometimes allowed to surcharge and falsify such account; and if anything has been inserted that is a wrong charge, he is at liberty to show it, and that is a falsification.

2 Ves. Jr. 565; 11 Wheat. (U. S.) 237.

See "Surcharge."

See Surcharge.

In Criminal Law

To alter or make false. The alteration or making false a record is punishable at common law by statute in the states, and, if of records of the United States courts, by act of congress of April 30, 1790.

1 Story, U. S. Laws, 86.

A fraudulent falsification of accounts is generally criminal.

140 Mass. 279; 18 Hun (N. Y.) 393.

In Practice. To prove a thing to be false.

Co. Litt. 104b.