CRIMEN FALSI - Black's Law Dictionary

The  term involves the  element of falsehood, and includes everything which  has a tendency to injuriously affect the administration  of justice by the  introduction of falsehood and fraud. Commonwealth v. Schambers, 110 Pa. Super. 61, 167 A. 645, 646; Commonwealth v. Jones, 334 Pa. 321,  5 A.2d  804,  805.  A crime  less than felony that  by its nature tends to cast  doubt on the  veracity of one  who commits it. Common wealth v. Gold,  155 Pa.Super. 364, 38 A.2d 486, This phrase is also used as a general designation of a class of offenses, including all such  as involve deceit or falsification; e. g.,  forgery, counterfeiting, using  false  weights or measures, perjury, etc. Includes forgery, perjury, subornation of perjury, and offenses affecting the public administration of justice. Matzenbaugh v. People, 194 Ill. 108, 62 N.E. 546, 88 Am.St.Rep. 134; Johnston v. Riley, 13 Ga. 97.

At common law. Any crime  which  rendered the perpetrator incompetent to be a witness, such as forgery,  perjury, subornation  of perjury and other crimes affecting the administration of justice. Drazen v. New Haven  Taxicab Co., 95 Conn. 500, 111 A. 861, 862; Maxey v. United States, C.C.A.Ark., 207 F. 327, 331; Webb v. State, 29 Ohio St. 351, 358.

In the  civil  law,  the  crime of falsifying; which might be committed either by writing,  as by the forgery  of a will or other  instrument; by words, as by bearing false  witness. or perjury; and  by acts, as by counterfeiting or adulterating the public money, dealing with false weights and measures, counterfeiting seals, and other fraudulent and deceitful practices. Dig. 48, 10; Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 3, c. 12, nn. 56-59.

In Scotch law. It has been  defined: "A fraudulent imitation or suppression of truth, to the prejudice of another."  Ersk.Inst.  4, 4, 66.

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