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False Latin

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

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 Rep. 121; 2 Nels. 830.

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