Fal"si*cri"men (?). [L.] Civ.Law
The crime of falsifying.
⇒ This term in the Roman 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.
© Webster 1913.