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FALDA. Span. In Spanish law. The slope or skirt of a hill. Fossat v. United States, 2 Wall. 673, 17 L. Ed. 739. TAJLD2E CUB.SUS. 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. FAIiDAGE. The privilege which ancient ly several lords reserved to themselves of set ting up folds for sheep in any fields within their manors, the better to manure them, and this not only with their own but their ten ants' sheep. Called, variously, "secta fal dare" "fold-course," "free-fold," "faldagii." Cowell; Spelman. FALDATA. In old English law. A flock or fold of sheep. Cowell. FALDFEY. Sax. A fee or rent paid Dy a tenant to his lord for leave to fold his sheep on his own ground. Blount. FALDISDORY. In ecclesiastical law. The bishop's seat or throne within the chan cel. FALDSOCA. Sax. The liberty or privi lege of foldage. FALDSTOOL, A place at the south side of the altar at which the sovereign kneels at his coronation. Wharton. FALDWORTH. In Saxon law. A person of age that he may be reckoned of some decennary. Du Fresne. TAJLERS1. In old English law. The tackle and furniture of a cart or wain. Blount FALESIA. In old English law. A hill or down by the sea-side. Co. Litt 56; Domesday. FALK-LAND. See FOLC-LAND. FALL. In Scotch law. To lose. To fall from a right is to lose or forfeit it. 1 Karnes, Eq. 228. FALL OF LAND. In English law. A quantity of land six ells square superficial measure. FALLO. In Spanish law. The final de cree or judgment given in a controversv «* 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 DEMONSTRATIO. In the civil law. False designation; erroneous descrip

tion of a person or thing in a written instru ment Inst 2, 20, 30. Falsa demonstratio non nocet, cum do corpore (persona) constat. 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; Cleaveland v. Smith, 2 Story, 291, Fed. Cas. No. 2,874. Falsa demonstratione legatnm non perimi. A bequest is not rendered void by an erroneous description. Inst. 2, 20, 30; Broom, Max. 645. Falsa gramntatiea non vitiat concessi onem. 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 appear. Shep. Touch. 87. FALSA MONETA. In the civil law. False or counterfeit money. Cod. 9, 24. Falsa orthographia non vitiat char tam, concessionem. False spelling does not vitiate a deed. Shep. Touch. 55, 87; 9 Coke, 48a; Wing. Max. 19. FALSARE. In old English law. To counterfeit. Quia falsavit sigillum, because he counterfeited the seal. Bract fol. 2766. FALSARIUS. A counterfeiter. Townsh. PI. 260. 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 intention to perpetrate some treachery or fraud. Hatcher v. Dunn, 102 Iowa, 411, 71 N. W. 343, 36 L. R, A. 689; Mason v. Association, 18 U. C. C. P. 19; Ratterman v. Ingalls, 48 Ohio St 468, 28 N. E. 168. —False action. See FEIGNED ACTION.— False answer. 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. 1108; Farnsworth v. Halstead (Sup.) 10 N. Y. Supp. 763.—False character. Personating the master or mistress of a servant, or any representative of such master or mis tress, 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 bis due, and was amerced and pun ished for the same. Manw. c. 25; Tomlins.— False entry. In banking law. An entry in the books of a bank which is intentionally made to represent what is not true or does not ex ist, with intent either to deceive its officers or a bank examiner or to defraud the bank. Ag new v. U. S., 165 U. S. 36, 17 Sup. Ct. 235, 41 L. Ed. 624; U. S. v. Peters ( a C.) 87 Fed. 984, —False fact. In the law of evidence. A