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A claim that is made by a person or party knowing that it is false so as to obtain a benefit. … [Read more...] about FALSE CLAIM

(A) crim. law. To prove a thing to be false; as, to falsify a record. Tech. Dict.; Co. Litt. 104 b. To alter or make false a record. This is punishable at common law. Vide Forgery. 2. By the Act of Congress of April 30, 1790, s. 15, 1 Story's L. U. S. 86, it is enacted, that if any person shall feloniously steal, take away, alter, falsify, or otherwise avoid, any record, writ, … [Read more...] about FALSIFY

Identity theft. Taking on another person's identity in order to commit a fraud. … [Read more...] about FALSE IMPERSONATION

A high offense against public justice punishable In England. To knowingly create a record that is false, e.g. changing the recorded blood alcohol content on a police report. … [Read more...] about FALSIFYING A RECORD

torts. Any intentional detention of the person of another not authorized by law, is false imprisonment. It is any illegal imprisonment, without any process whatever, or under color of process wholly illegal, without regard to the question whether any crime has been committed, or a debt due.2. The remedy is, in order to be restored to liberty, by writ of habeas corpus, and to … [Read more...] about FALSE IMPRISONMENT