False Fact
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
In the law of evidence. The appearance or semblance of a fact; a fact existing only in statement, without any foundation in truth. Burr. Circ. Evid. 218, 219.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In the law of evidence. A feigned, simulated, or fabricated fact; a fact not founded in truth, but existing only in assertion : the deceitful sembiance of a fact.
Defined under False in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Inthe law of evidence. A feigned, simulated, or fabricated fact; a fact not founded in truth, but existing only in assertion; the deceitful semblance of a fact.