Law Dictionary

In French Law. A Judicial fact. One of the factors or elements constitutive of an obligation.

In Scots law. A solemn pledge; an oath.

Idle persons; idle livers; vagabonds. Termes de la Ley; Cowell; Blount; Cunningham. FALCARE (Lat.) To cut or mow down. Falcare prata, to cut or mow down grass in meadows; the cutti

A term applied among the Mohammedans to a kind of religious ascetic or beggar, whose claim is that he "is in need of mercy, and poor in the sight of God, rather than in need of wor

In old English law. A Jacket or close coat Blount.

To mow.

I. In old English law. Grass fresh mown and laid in swathes,

I. In old English law. A mower; a servile tenant who performed the labor of mowing. Falcatores: mowers.

In Spanish law. The fourth portion of an inheritance, which legally belongs to the heir, and for the protection of which he has the right to reduce the legacies to three fourths pa

I, Falcidian law. In the civil law. A law enacted on motion of Publius Falcidius, tribune of the people, A. XJ. C. 714, by which a testator was forbidden to give more in legacies t

In Roman law. A statute or law restricting the right of disposing of property by will, enacted by the people during the reign of Augustus, on the proposition of Falcidius, who was

That portion of a testator's estate which, by the Falcidian law, was required to be left to the heir, amounting to at least one-fourth. Civ. Code La. art. 1608; 1 White, New Recop.

In Saxon law. Malice; open and deadly hostility; deadly feud. The word designated the enmity between the family of a murdered man and that of his murderer, which was recognized, am

A sheep walk. 2 Vent. 139.

The privilege which anciently several lords reserved to themselves of setting up folds for sheep in any fields within their manors, the better to manure them, and this not only wit

I. I. In old English law. To fold. Faldari: to be folded.

In old English law. A flock or fold of sheep. Cowell.

In old English law. A fold-course; the course (going or taking about) of a fold. Spelman. A sheep walk, or feed for sheep. 2 Vent. 139

Same as Faldage.

A compensation paid by some customary tenants that they might have liberty to fold their own sheep on their own land. Cunningham; Cowell; Blount.

The bishop's seat or throne within the chancel. FALDSOCA (Saxon). The liberty or privilege of foldage.

A sheep-fold. CowelL

L I. In old English law. A fold course; the course of a fold; a sheep walk, or feed for sheep.

flame as Faldage.

or FOLDSTOOL. A place at the south side of the altar at which the sovereign kneels at his coronation.

A person of age that he may be reckoned of some decennary. Du Fresne.

In Saxon law. A person of age that he may be reckoned of some decennary. Du Fresno

Faldwrithi. Sax. [from fald, a station, or fixed abode, and wurthi, worthy.] In Saxon law. A person of proper age to be fixed in some certain decennary or friburg. Spelman. FALERAE

In old English law. The tackle and furniture of a cart or wain. Blount.

In old English law. A hill, or down by the seaside. Co. Litt. 5b; Domesday Book.

Same as Folc-land.

In Scotch law. To lose. To fall from a right is to lose or forfeit it. 1 Kames, Eq. 228.

For purposes of this part, the term “fallback prescription drug plan” means a prescription drug plan that— (A) only offers the standard prescription drug coverage and access to neg

The term "fallback provisions" means terms in a LIBOR contract for determining a benchmark replacement, including any terms relating to the date on which the benchmark re

For purposes of this subsection, the term “fallback service area” means, for a PDP region with respect to a year, any area within such region for which the Secretary determines bef

In Spanish law. The final decree or judgment given in a lawsuit. FALSA DEMONSTRATIO (Lat.) In the civil law. False designation; erroneous description of a person or thing in a writ

In English law. A quantity of land six ells square, superficial measure.

Land left uncultivated to recuperate.

In Old English Law. An unexplained term for some particular kind of land. Jacob, L. Dict. FALSA DEMONSTRATIO. In Civil Law. False designation; erroneous description of a person or

A person reckoned old enough to become a member of the decennary, and so subject to the law of frankpledge. Spelm. FALE8IA. In Old English Law. A hill or down by the sea-side. Co.

Erroneous description.

A bequest is not rendered void by an erroneous description. Inst. 2, 20, 30; Broom, Max. 645.

An erroneous description will not nullify a legacy. See 3 Bradf. (N. Y.) 144.

A false description does not vitiate. 6 Term R. 676. See 2 Story (U. S.) 291; 1 Greenl. Ev. § 301; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 562; 2 Pars. Cont. 62, note, 69, note, 72, note,

An erroneous description is harmless when it is clear as to the individual.

False description does not injure or vitiate, provided the thing or person intended has once bcen sufficiently described. Mere false description does not make an instrument inopera

Faulty grammar will not vitiate a deed.

False or bad grammar does not vitiate a grant Shep. Touch. 55; 9 Coke, 48a. Neither false Latin nor false English will make a deed void when the intent of the parties doth plainly

In Civil law. False or counterfeit money. Code, 9. 24.

SIVE FALSA grammatica, non vitiat concessionem. False spelling or false grammar does not vitiate a grant. 9 Coke, 48; Shep. Touch. 55.

False spelling does not vitiate a deed. Shep. Touch. 55, 87 ; 9 Coke, 48a; Wing. Max. 19.

Faulty spelling, or faulty grammar will not vitiate a grant.

To counterfeit. Bracton, fol. 276b.

I I. In old English law. A

or FOLSONARIUS. A counterfeiter. Towns. PI. 260; Hov. Frauds, 424.

I. In the civil law. Beating without pain!

not true." Ante, at 414 (internal quotation marks omitted).

See "Feigned Action."

the term “false advertisement” means any advertisement which is false or misleading in any particular. / The term “false advertisement” means an advertisement, other than labeling,

This phrase must be taken with its accepted legal meaning, and thus it must be found that the statement contained in the package was put there to accompany the goods with actual in

In pleading. A sham answer; one which is false in the sense of being a mere pretense set up in bad faith and without color of fact Howe v. Elwell, 57 App. Div. 357, 67 N. Y. Supp.

An unsuccessful appeal of felony.

the term “false authentication feature” means an authentication feature that— (A) is genuine in origin, but, without the authorization of the issuing authority, has been tampered w

Personating the master or mistress of a servant, or any representative of such master or mistress, and giving a false character to the servant, is an offense punishable in England

A claim made by a man for more than his due. An instance is given where the prior of Lancaster 'claimed a tenth part of the venison in corio as well as in came, where he was entitl

where a man claimed more than bis due, and was amerced and punished for the same. Manw. c. 25; Tomlins. Defined under False in Black's Law Dictionary.

The statement of the offenses here carries with it the charge of inducing or attempting to induce the payment of a claim for money or property involving the element of deceit that

§3729-the provision at issue in this case.

an investigation conducted "for the purpose of ascertaining whether any person is or has been engaged in any violation of a false claims law." §3733(l)(2) (emphasis added).

the term “false claims law investigator” means any attorney or investigator employed by the Department of Justice who is charged with the duty of enforcing or carrying into effect

In Spanish law. Falsity; an alteration of the truth. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 26, lib. 1. Deception; fraud. Id. pt. 3, tit. 32, lib. 21.

A collection of canon law, dated about the middle of the 9th century, probably by a Frankish ecclesiastic who called himself Isadon. It continued to be the chief repertory of the c

any entry on the books of the bank which is intentionally made to represent what is not true or does not exist, with the intent either to deceive its officers or to defraud the ass

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.

The only essentials to the statutory bar, in so far as relates to the present question, are: (a) That the written statement was made for the purpose of obtaining credit; (b) that i

The use of the words false, forged, and counterfeit, in the statute, imply, therefore, when applied to any of the obligations of government mentioned, that it purports to be such a

Any untrue assertion or proposition; a willful act or declaration contrary to the truth. It does not always and necessarily imply a lie or willful untruth, but is generally used in

the term “false identification document” means a document of a type intended or commonly accepted for the purposes of identification of individuals that— (A) is not issued by or un

Any unlawful restraint of a man's liberty, whether in a place made use of for imprisonment generally, or in one used only on the particular occasion, or by words and an array of fo

A counterfeit; one made in the similitude of a genuine instrument and purporting on its face to be such. U. S. v. Howell, 11 Wall. 435, 20 L. Ed. 195; U. S. v. Owens (a G.) 37 Fed.

A writ to correct an error of an inferior English court.

the term “false labeling” means any labeling which is false or misleading in any particular;

In old practice. Ungrammatical Latin. Before the statute directing law proceedings to be in English, if a Latin word was significant, though not true or good Latin, yet an indictme

Lights and signals falsely and maliciously displayed for the purpose of bringing a vessel into danger. Exhibiting false lights or signals, with intent to bring any ship into danger

in opposition to the truth.

the manner of making is also evident from the fifth clause of § 2314, which forbids the interstate transportation of "any tool, implement, or thing used or fitted to be used in fal

For purposes of this section, the term “falsely make” means to prepare or provide an application or document, with knowledge or in reckless disregard of the fact that the applicati

to state in a certificate that which is not true.

the term “falsely registers” means registers in a manner that prevents the effective identification of or contact with the person who registers; and

The term “false match” means the incorrect matching of one individual’s biometric identifier information to another individual’s biometric identifier information by a biometric ide

Fraudulently constructed means of measuring size or capacity and used to defraud. False personation. The offense of pretending to be a certain other person in order to defraud.

Spreading false news, whereby discord may grow between the sovereign of England and his people, or the great men of the realm, or which may produce other mischiefs, still seems to

The term “false non-match” means the rejection of a valid identity by a biometric identifier system.

See Perjury.

more than just claims containing express falsehoods.

See Pebsona-

The statute is to be interpreted according to its plain language as prohibiting any false assumption or pretense of office or employment under the authority of the United States, o

A sham plea. See infra. And see People v. McCumber, 18 N. Y. 321, 72 Am. Dec. 515; Pierson v. Evans, 1 Wend. (N. Y.) 30.

False representations and statements, made with a fraudulent design to obtain “money, goods, wares, and merchandise,” with intent to cheat, 2 Bouvier, Inst. n. 2308. A representati

In criminal law. False representations and statements, made with a fraudulent design to obtain "money, goods, wares, and merchandise," with intent to cheat. 2 Bouv. Inst, note 2308