Montesq. Esprit des Lois, liv
Categories: Latin Maxims
Definition (1910 Edition)
Origin: Latin
28, c. 27.—False Latin. When law proceedings were written in Latin, if a word were significant though not good Latin, yet an indictment, declaration, or fine should not be made void by it; but if the word were not Latin, nor allowed by. the law, and it were in a material point,’ it made the whole vicious. (5 Coke, 121: Nels. 830.) Wharton.—False lights and sigmals. Lights and signals falsely and maliciously displayed for the purpose of bringing a vessel into danger—False news. Spreading false news, whereby discord may grow between the queen of England and her people, or the great men of the realm, or which may produce other mischiefs, still seems to be a misdemeanor, under
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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