FALSE
Categories: Criminal Law
Definition (1910 Edition)
tien of a person or.thing in a written roe ment. Inst. 2, 20, 30.
feigned, simulated, or fabricated fact; a fact not founded in truth, but existing only in assertion; the deceitful semblance of a fact.-- False imprisonment. ‘See IMPRISONMENT. False instrument. <A counterfeit; one made in the similityde of a genuine instrument_and urporting on its face to be such. U. S. y.
feigned, simulated, or fabricated fact; a fact not founded in truth, but existing only in assertion; the deceitful semblance of a fact.-- False imprisonment. ‘See IMPRISONMENT. False instrument. <A counterfeit; one made in the similityde of a genuine instrument_and urporting on its face to be such. U. S. y.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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