Defn: The crime of falsifying.
Note: This term in the Roman law included not only forgery, but every species of fraud and deceit. It never has been used in so extensive a sense in modern common law, in which its predominant significance is forgery, though it also includes perjury and offenses of a like character. Burrill. Greenleaf.
FALSIFIABLE
Fal"si*fi`a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. OF. falsifiable.]
Defn: Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted.
Johnson.
FALSIFICATION
Fal`si*fi*ca"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. falsification.]
1. The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not. To counterfeit the living image of king in his person exceedeth all falsifications. Bacon.
2. Willful misstatement or misrepresentation. Extreme necessity . . . forced him upon this bold and violent falsification of the doctrine of the alliance. Bp. Warburton.
3. (Equity)
Defn: The showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong. Story.
FALSIFICATOR
Fal"si*fi*ca`tor, n. Etym: [Cf. F. falsificateur.]