Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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FALSE JUDGMENT

FALEILE

FALEB2E. In old English law. The Cackle and furniture of a cart or wain. Blount. FALESIA. In old English law. A hill or down by the sea-side. Co. Litt. 5&; Domesday. FALK-LAND. See FOLO-LAND. FALL. In Scotch law. To Jose. To fall from a right is to lose or forfeit it. 1 Kames, Eq. 228. FALL OF LAND. In English law. A quantity of laud six ells square superficial measure. FALLO. In Spanish law. Thefinalde cree or judgment given in a controversy at law. FALLOW-LAND. Land plowed, but not sown, and left uncultivated for a time after successive crops. FALLUM. In old English law. An un explained term for some particular kind of land. CowelL FALSA DEMONSTBATIO. In the civil law. False designation; erroneous description of a person or thing in a written instrument. Inst. 2, 20, 30. Falsa demonstratio non nocet, cum de corpore (persona) eonstat. False descrip tion does not injure or vitiate, provided the thing or person intended has once been suf ficiently described. Mere false description does not make an instrument inoperative. Broom, Max. 629; 6 Term, 676; 11 Mees. & W. 189; 2 Story, 291. Falsa demonstratione legatum non perimi. A bequest is not rendered void by an erroneous description. Inst. 2, 20, 30; Broom, Max. 645. Falsa grammatica non vitiat coneessi onem. False or bad grammar does not \itiate 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 appear. Shep. Touch. 87. FALSA MONETA. In the civil law. False or counterfeit money. Cod. 9, 24. Falsa orthographia non vitiat chartam, [concessionem.] False spelling does not vitiate a deed. Shep. Touch. 55, 87; 9 Coke, 48a; Wing. Max. 19. FALSABE. In old English law. To counterfeit. Quia faUavit sigillum, be

cause he counterfeited the seal. Bract, fol. 2766. FALSARIUS. Townsh. PI. 260. A counterfeiter. FALSE. Untrue; erroneous; deceitful; contrived or calculated to deceive and in jure. Unlawful. In law, this word means something more than untrue; it means something designedly untrue and deceitful, and implies an inten tion to perpetrate some treachery or fraud. 18 U. 0. C. P. 19; 7 Amer. & Eng. Enc. Law, 661. FALSE ACTION. See FEIGNED AC TION. FALSE CHABACTEB. 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 with a fine of £20. St. 32 Geo. III. c. 56. FALSE CLAIM, in the forest law, was where a man claimed more than his due, and was amerced and punished for the same. Manw. c. 25; Tomlins. FALSE FACT. In the 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. FALSE IMPBISONMENT. The un lawful arrest or detention of a person with out warrant, or by an illegal warrant, or a warrant illegally executed, and either in a prison or a place used tempoiarily for that purpose, or by force and constraint without confinement. False imprisonment consists in the un lawful detention of the person of another, for any length of time, whereby he is de prived of his personal liberty. Code Ga. 1882, § 2990; Pen. Code Cal. § 236. The term is also used as the name of the action which lies for this species of injury. 3 Bl. Comm. 138. FALSE JUDGMENT. In old English law. A writ which lay when a false judg ment had been pronounced in a court not of record, as a county court, court baron, etc. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 17,18. In old French law. The defeated party in a suit had the privilege of accusing the judges of pronouncing a false or corrupt judgment, whereupon the issue was deter mined by his challenging them to the com

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