in law, is used for proving anything to be false. Hence we find

**Falsifying** a record, for showing it to be erroneous. Thus lawyers teach, that a person purchasing land of another, who is afterwards outlawed for felony, &c. may falsify the record, not only as to the time wherein the felony is supposed to have been committed, but also as to the point of the offence. But where a man is found guilty by verdict, a purchaser cannot falsify as to the offence; though he may for the time where the party is found guilty generally in the indictment, because the time is not material upon evidence.

**EALSTAFF.** See FASTOLFE.