Făl'sī Crī'men

Făl'sī Crī'men. (Civ. Law.) The crime of falsifying. ☞ This term in the civil 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.