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Accounts, falsification of, a misdemeanour on the part of a clerk, etc., by the (English) Falsification of Accounts Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. C. 24), punishable by penal servitude up to seven years or imprisonment, with or without hard labour, up to two years, see R. v. Oliphant, 1905 (2) KB 67. The document or account mentioned in s. 1 of that Act must belong to or be in possession of the employer, R. v. Palin, 1906 (1) KB 7. Falsification of accounts may amount to forgery within the (English) Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27) [Re Arton, 1896 (1) QB 509]. The falsification of a mechanical means of recording an account, e.g., a taxi-meter, and thereby defrauding the employer, is within the Act, R. v. Solomons, (1909) 2 KB 980. As to officers of companies and bodies corporate keeping fradulent accounts, etc., see (English) Larceny Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. C. 96), ss. 82-84, and (English) Larceny Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 20; in the case of a company being wound up. (Engli...
Falsification
Falsification.1. Pedigree.--For a vendor or mortgagor or other person disposing of property or any interest therein for money or money's worth to a purchaser of land or chattels real or personal, or for his solicitor or other agent to conceal from the purchaser any instrument or incumbrance material to the title or to falsify any pedigree upon which the title may depend, in order to induce a purchaser or mortgagee or his solicitor to accept the title offered, is a misdemeanour punishable by fine or imprisonment with or without hard labour, or both, for not more than two years, by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 183, extend-ing the (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 35), s. 24 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Conveyancing'), and the falsifier is also liable to an action for damages by the same enactment. The fiat of the Attorney-General is required before comm-encing a prosecution. [(English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 183]2. Official Documents.--Making any mat...
falsification
falsification : an act or instance of falsifying ...
crimen falsi
crimen falsi [Latin, literally, crime of falsehood] : a crime (as perjury or fraud) involving deceit or falsification ...
Falsification
The act of falsifying or making false a counterfeiting the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not...
Falsificator
A falsifier...
Surcharge and falsify
Surcharge and falsify, a mode of taking accounts in Chancery, where the court treats the account as a stated account but gives liberty to challenge any particular items. 'I am not now upon a question arising on an open general account, but barely upon a liberty given to the plaintiff to surcharge and falsify. The onus probandi is always on the party having that liberty; for the court takes it as a stated account, and establishes it; but if any of the parties can shew an omission, for which credit ought to be [given], that is a surcharge; or if anything is inserted, that is a wrong charge, he is at liberty to show it, and that is falsification': Pit v. Cholmondeley, (1754) 2 Vs Sen 565, per Lord Hardwicke, L.C. See R.S.C. Ord. XXXIII., r. 5....
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