KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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FALSING

FAMILY

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. la Scotch law. The proving the injustice, falsity, or error of the doom or'sentence of a court Tomlins; Jacob. The reversal of a sentence or judgment. Skene. An appeal. Bell. FAXSO RETORNO BREVIUM. A writ which formerly lay against the sheriff who had execution of process for false re turning of writs. Reg. Jud. 436. FALSONARITJS. 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 falsehood, concealment of the truth, or fraudulent alteration, as by cutting out or erasing part of a writing. FALSUS. Lat. False; fraudulent; er roneous. Deceitful; mistaken. Falsns in uno, falsns 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. The Boston, 1 Sumn. 328, 356, Fed. Cas. No. 1,673; The Santissima Trini dad, 7 Wheat. 339, 5 L. Ed. 454. This maxim is particularly applied to the testimony of a witness, who, if he is shown to have sworn falsely in one detail, may be considered un worthy of belief as to all the rest of his evi dence. Grimes v. State, 63 Ala. 168; Wilson v. Coulter, 29 App. Div. 85, 51 N. Y. Supp. 804; White v. Disher, 67 Cal. 402, 7 Pac 826. FAMA. Lat. Fame; character; reputa tion; report of common opinion. Fama, fides et oculus non patiuntur lndnnt. 3 Bulst. 226. Fame, faith, and eyesight do not suffer a cheat. Fama quae suspicionem inducit, oriri debet apnd bonos et graves, non quidem malevolos et maledicos, sed providas et fide dignas personas, non semel sed sae pius, quia clamor minnit et defamatio manifestat. 2 Inst. 52. Report, which in duces suspicion, ought to arise from good and grave men; not, indeed, from malevo lent and malicious men, but from' cautious and credible persons; not only once, but frequently; for clamor diminishes, and def amation manifests. 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 over others. This could be long only to a Roman citizen who was a "man in his own right," (homo sui juris.) Mackeld. Rom. Law, §§ 133, 144. In old English law. A household; the body of household servants; a quantity of land, otherwise called "mansa," 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 Tex as. State •. Sullivan, 9 Tex. 156. FAMILIES EMPTOR. In Roman law. An intermediate person who purchased the aggregate, inheritance when sold per oes et libram, in the process of making a will un der the Twelve Tables. This purchaser was merely a man of straw, transmitting the in heritance to the hceres proper. Brown. FAMILIA ERCISCUND.X. In Roman law. An action for the partition of the ag gregate succession of a familia, where that devolved upon co-hosredes. It was also ap plicable to enforce a contribution towards the necessary expenses incurred on the familia. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 499. FAMIIilARES REGIS. Persons of the king's household. The ancient title of the "six clerks" of chancery in England. Crabb, Com. Law, 184; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 249, 251. FAMILY. A collective body of persons who live in one house and under one head or management. Jarboe v. Jarboe, 106 Mo. App., 459, 79 S. W. 1162; Dodge v. Boston & P. R. Corp, 154 Mass. 299, 28 N. E. 243, 13 L. R. A. 318; Tyson v. Reynolds, 52 Iowa, 431, 3 N. W. 469. A family comprises a father, mother, and children. In a wider sense, it may include domestic servants; all who live in one house under one head. In a still broader sense, a group of blood-relatives; all the relations who descend from a common ancestor, or who spring from a common root. See Civil Code La. art. 3522, no. 16; 9 Ves. 323. A husband and wife living together may constitute a "family," with,in the meaning of that word as used in a homestead law. Miller v. Finegan, 26 Fla. 29, 7 South. 140, 6 L. R. A. 813. "Family," in its origin, meant "servants;" but, in its more modern and comprehensive meaning, it signifies a collective body of persons living together in one house, or within the cur-