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False lights. S. 667 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), s. 667, imposes a penalty upon any person who after receiving notice fails to extinguish or screen any fire or light that may be mistaken for a lighthouse. See FALSE SIGNAL.

In an invasion-of-privacy action a plaintiff's allegation that the defendant attributed to the plaintiff views that he or she does not hold and placed the plaintiff before the public in a highly offensive and untrue manner, Black's Law Dic-tionary, 7th Edn., p. 619.