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false promise.See PROMISE.[Blacks Law 8th]

false pretenses.The crime of knowingly obtaining title to another’s personal property by misrepresenting a fact with the intent to defraud. • Although unknown to English common law, false pretenses became a misdemeanor under a statute old enough to make it common law in the United States. Modern American statutes make it either a felony or…

false plea.See sham pleading under PLEADING(1). [Blacks Law 8th]

false personation.See false impersonation under IMPERSONATION.[Blacks Law 8th]

false oath.See PERJURY.[Blacks Law 8th]

false news.Hist. The misdemeanor of spreading false information that causes discord between the monarch and the people or between important people in the realm.3 Edw. 1, ch. 34.[Blacks Law 8th]

false misrepresentation.See MISREPRESENTATION. • This phrase is redundant, since misrepresentation includes the idea of falsity.[Blacks Law 8th]

False Memory Syndrome Foundation.An organization of parents who claim that their adult children have falsely accused them of childhood sexual abuse. • The organization was formed for the purpose of aiding persons who claim to have been wrongly accused as a result of the recovery of repressed memories. — Abbr. FMSF. Cf. VICTIMS OF CHILD…

false-memory syndrome.The supposed recovery of memories of traumatic or stressful episodes that did not actually occur, often in session with a mental-health therapist. • This term is most frequently applied to claims by adult children that repressed memories of prolonged and repeated child sexual abuse, usu. by parents, have surfaced, even though there is no…

false making.See FORGERY(1).[Blacks Law 8th]