Falsity - Examples

Examples

  • Counterfeiting money, or attempting to coin genuine legal tender without due authorization;
  • tampering with wills, codicils, or such-like legal instruments;
  • prying into the correspondence of others to their prejudice;
  • using false weights and measures,
  • adulterating merchandise, so as to render saleable what purchasers would otherwise never buy, or so as to derive larger profits from goods otherwise marketable only at lower figures;
  • bribing judges,
  • suborning witnesses;
  • advancing false testimony;
  • manufacturing spurious seals;
  • forging signatures;
  • padding accounts;
  • interpolating the texts of legal enactments; and
  • sharing in the pretended birth of supposititious offspring

are among the chief forms which this crime assumes.

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