suppressio veri

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When, however, Palikao was willing to speak he often did so untruthfully, repeatedly adding the suggestio falsi to the suppressio veri.

From My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

Sacrilege in ignorance, fraud, suppressio veri, and perjury, were punished by enforced compensation, and the addition of a fifth part of the value concerned in the matter to the priest, or to the person wronged.

From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various

There yet remains, therefore, the dissatisfaction which is always likely to arise— not from the smallest allegatio falsi, but from the large suppressio veri.

From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas

But I feel convinced that the irascible Methuselah on the croquet ground was purposely and maliciously guilty of suppressio veri.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 11, 1917 by Various

Sir David Brewster's account of the matter, according to the German authorities, Gerhardt, Guhrauer, and others, is one-sided, and sins by suppressio veri, ignoring important documents, particularly Leibnitz's letter to Oldenburg, August 27, 1676.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 by Various