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Untrue

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

A statement is untrue which not express things exactly as they are. 188 111. 138. UNUMQUODQUE EODEM MODO QUO colligatum est dissolvitur. In the same manner in which anything is bound, it is loosened. 2 Rolle, 39. UNUMQUODQUE EST ID QUOD EST prinolpallua In Ipso. That which ia the principal part of a thing is the thing Itself. Hob. 123. ligation is dissolved in the same manner in Which it is contracted. 12 Barb. (N. Y.) 366, 375. UNUMQUODQUE PRINCIPORUM EST siblmetlpse fides; et persplcua vera non sunt probanda. Every principle Is its own evidence, and plain truths are not to be proved. Co. Litt. 11; Branch, Princ.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Prima facie inaccurate, but not necessarily wilfully false. 3 B. & S. 929.