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  • FALK-LAND
    See FOLC-LAND.
  • FALL
    In Scotch law. To lose. To fall from a right is to lose or forfeit it. 1 Karnes, Eq. 228.
  • FALL OF LAND
    In English law. A quantity of land six ells square superficial measure.
  • FALLO
    In Spanish law. The final decree or judgment given in a controversy at law.
  • FALLOW-LAND
    Land plowed, but not sown, and left uncultivated for a time after successive crops.
  • FALLUM
    In old English law. An unexplained term for some particular kind of land. Cowell.
  • FALSA DEMONSTRATIO
    In the civil law. False designation; erroneous description of a person or thing in a written instrument. Inst 2, 20, 30. Falsa demonstratio non nooet, onm do oorporo (persona) constat. False description does not injure or vitiate, provided the thing or person intended has once been sufficiently described. Mere false More...
  • FALSA MONETA
    In the civil law. False or counterfeit money. Cod. 9, 24. Falsa orthographia non vitiat chartam, concessionem. False spelling does not vitiate a deed. Shep. Touch. 55, 87 ; 9 Coke, 48a; Wing. Max. 19.
  • FALSARE
    In old English law. To counterfeit. Quia falsavit sigillum, because he counterfeited the seal. Bract fol. 2765.
  • FALSARIUS
    A counterfeiter. Townsh, Pl. 260.
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