Fabricate
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
To Invent; to devise falsely. Invent is sometimes used in a bad sense, but fabricate never in any other. To fabricate a story implies that it is so contrary to DICTIONARY ENCYCLOPEDIA man to induce belief in it. Crabbe, Syn. The word implies fraud or falsehood; a false or fraudulent concoction, knowing it to be wrong. L. R. 10 Q. B. 162.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
To fabricate evidence is to arrange or manufacture circumstances or indicia, after the fact committed, with the purpose of using them as evidence, and of deceitfully making them appear as if acoi-dental or undesigned; to devise falsely or contrive by artifice with the intention to deceive. Such evidence may be wholly forged and artificial or it may consist in se warping and distorting real facts as to create an erro-ncous impression in the minds of those who observe them and then presenting such impression as true and genuine.
— Fabricated evidence. Evidence manufactured or arranged after the fact, and either wholly false or else warped and discolored by artifice and contrivance with a deceitful intent. See supra.
— Fabricated fact. In the law of evidence. A fact existing only in statement, without any foundation in truth. An acfual or genuine fact to which a false appearance has been designedly given; a physical object placed in a false connection, with another, or with a person on whom it is designed to cast suspicion.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
To forge; to devise falsely; to create by artifice, with a view to deceive; as to fabricate evidence, or facts the materials of evidence.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
To fabricate evidence is to arrange or manufacture circumstances or Eee indicia, after the fact committed, with the purpose of using them as evidence, and of deceitfully making them appear as if accidental or undesigned; to devise falsely or contrive by artifice with the intention to deceive. Such evidence may be wholly forged and artificial, or it may consist in so warping and distorting real facts as to create an erroneous impression in the minds of those who observe thein and then presenting such impression as true and genuine,