Falsify
Defined in 8 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
To prove that an item in an account before the court, 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. 565; Armstrong v. Toler, 11 Wheat (U. S.) 237, 6 L. Ed. 468. See SUBCIIABGE, In Criminal Law. To alter or make false. The alteration or making false of a record is punishable at common law or by statute in the states, and, if of records of the United States courts, by act of congress of April 30, 1790; U. S. Rev. Stat § 6394. In Practice. To prove a thing to be false. Co. Lltt. 104 b.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
To disprove; to prove to be false or-erroneous; to avoid or defeat; spoken of verdicts, appeals, etc. To counterfeit or forge; to make something false; to give a false appcaiance to anything.
In equity practice. To show, in accounting before a master in chancery, that a charge has bcen inserted which is wrong; that is, either wholly false or in some part erroneous. Pull. Accts. 162; 1 Story, Eq. Jur. § 525. See Falsification.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
To prove false; to avoid or verdict or judgment. To show, in a charge has been inserted which false, or in part erroneous. To forge to give a false appearance to a thing.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
To disprove; to prove to be false or erroneous; to avoid or defeat; spoken of verdicts, appeals, etc. To counterfeit or forge; to make something false; to give a false appearance to anything.
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. Pull. Accts. 162; 1 Story, Eq. Jur. § 525.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
In equity practice, to disprove an item in an account.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
[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.