Law, is used for proving any thing 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 of 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.

Falstaff. See Fastolf.