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FALSE RETURN

Legal Term: FALSE RETURN
Definition: A return made by the sheriff, or other ministerial officer, to a writ in which is stated a fact contrary to the truth, and injurious to one of the parties or some one having an interest in it.

2. In this case the officer is liable for damages to the party injured. .2 Esp. Cas. 475. See Falso retorno brevium.



***All definitions are taken from the 1856 Edition of Bouviers Law Dictionary

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