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FAMILY EMPTOR

FALSI CRIMEN

falsehood, concealment of the truth, or fraud ulent alteration, as by cutting out or eras ing part of a writing. FALSUS. False; fraudulent; erroneous. Deceitful; mistaken. Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus. False in one thing, false in everything. Where a party is clearly shown to have em bezzled one article of property, it is a ground of presumption that he may have embezzled others also. 1 Sumn. 329, 356; 7 Wheat. 338. FAMA. Fame; character; reputation; report of common opinion. Fama, fides et oculus non patiuntur ludum. 3 Bulst. 226. Fame, faith, and eyesight do not suffer a cheat. Fama, qu» suspicionem inducit, oriri debet apud bonos et graves, non quidem malevolos et maledicos, sed providas et fide dignas personas, non semel sed sse pius, quia clamor minuit et defamatio manifestat. 2 Inst. 52. Report, which in duces suspicion, ought to arise from good and grave men; not, indeed, from malevolent and malicious men, but from cautious and credi ble persons; not only once, but frequently; for clamor diminishes, and defamation man ifests. FAMACIDE. A killer of reputation; a slanderer. FAMILIA. In Roman law. A house hold; a family. On the composition of the Roman family, see AGNATI; COGNATI; and see Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 144. Family right; the right or status of being the head of a family, or of exercising the patria potestas ovei others. This could be long only to a Roman citizen who was a " man in his own right," (homo suijuiis.) Mack eld. Rom. Law, §§ 133, 144. In old English law. A household; the body of household servants; a quantity of land, otheivvise called "munsa," sufficient to maintain one family. In Spanish law. A family, which might consist of domestics or servants. It seems that a'single person owning negroes was the "head of a family," within the meaning of the colonization laws of Coahuila and Texas. 9 Tex. 156. FAMILIES EMPTOR. In Roman law. An inteimediate peison who purchased the aggregate inheiitance when sold per ces et

name • forgery' has been of modern intro duction." "If there is any distinction to be made between 'forgery' and • falsehood,' I would consider the latter to be more compre hensive than the former." 2 Broun, 77, 78. FALSI CRIMEN. Fraudulent suborna tion or concealment, with design to darken or hide the truth, and make things appear otherwise than they are. It is committed (1) by words, as when a witness swears falsely; (2) by writing, as when a person antedates a contract; (3) by deed, as selling by false weights and measures. Wharton. See CRIMEN FALSI. FALSIFICATION. In equity practice. The showing an item in the debit of an ac count to be either wholly false or in some part erroneous. 1 Story, Eq. Jur. § 525. FALSIFY. To disprove; to prove to be false or erroneous; to avoid or defeat; spoken of veidicts, appeals, etc. To counterfeit or forge; to make some thing false; to give a false appearance to any thing. In equity practice. To show, in ac counting 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. FALSIFYING A RECORD. A high offense against public justice, punishable in England by 24 & 25 Viet. c. 98, §§ 27, 28, and in the United States, generally, by statute. FALSING. In Scotch law. False mak ing; forgery. "Falsing of evidentis." 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 85. Making or proving false. FALSING OF DOOMS. In Scotch law. The proving the injustice, falsity, or error of the doom or sentence of a court. Tom lins; Jacob. The reversal of a sentence or judgment. Skene. An appeal. Bell. FALSO RETORNO BREVIUM. A writ which formerly lay against the sheriff who had execution of process for false return ing of writs. Reg. Jud. 436. FALSONARIUS. A forger; a counter feiter. Hov. 424. FALSUM. Lat. In the civil law. A false or forged thing; a fraudulent simula tion; a fraudulent counterfeit or imitation, such as a forged signature or instrument. Also falsification, which may be either by

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