Chiefly Sc. Obs. Also 4 falsat, 5 falssett. [app. a. OF. falset (Godef. s. v. faussé):—late L. falsātum, neut. pa. pple. of falsāre: see FALSE v.] Falsehood, treachery, fraud; an instance of this. In Scots Law = FALSEHOOD (see quot. 1609).

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1375.  Barbour, Bruce, XV. 122.

        Bot I trow falsat euirmar
Sall haue vnfair and euill ending.

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1482.  Certificate, in Surtees Misc. (1890), 40. To put down all falssett and untrewit.

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1555.  Sc. Acts Mary (1597), § 44. Mony falsettes daylie done within this realme be Notars.

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1569.  J. Sanford, trans. Agrippa’s Of the Vanitie and Uncertaintie of Artes and Sciences, 161. This then standeth in force bothe by custome and ordinaunces of the Lawe, although there appeare erroure or falset, for common erroure maketh Lawe, and the matter judged, trouth.

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1609.  Skene, Reg. Maj., 69. The generall crime of falset, conteines vnder it sundrie speciall crimes. As false Charters or Writtes, false money, false measures, false wechts. Ibid., 128. He quha is convict of falset in weghts.

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