Falsity (from Latin falsitas) or falsehood is a perversion of truth originating in the deceitfulness of one party, and culminating in the damage of another party. Falsity is also a measure of the quality or extent of the falseness of something, while a falsehood may also mean simply an incorrect (false) statement, independent of any intention to deceive.
Examples
- Counterfeiting money, or attempting to coin genuine legal tender without due authorization;
- tampering with wills, codicils, or such-like legal instruments;
- prying into the correspondence of others to their prejudice;
- using false weights and measures,
- adulterating merchandise, so as to render saleable what purchasers would otherwise never buy, or so as to derive larger profits from goods otherwise marketable only at lower figures;
- bribing judges,
- suborning witnesses;
- advancing false testimony;
- manufacturing spurious seals;
- forging signatures;
- padding accounts;
- interpolating the texts of legal enactments; and
- sharing in the pretended birth of supposititious offspring
are among the chief forms which this crime assumes.
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