\Fal"si*cri"men\ [L.] (Civ. Law)
The crime of falsifying.
Note: This term in the Roman law included not only forgery,
      but every species of fraud and deceit. It never has
      been used in so extensive a sense in modern common law,
      in which its predominant significance is forgery,
      though it also includes perjury and offenses of a like
      character. --Burrill. Greenleaf.