diff --git a/src/jsx.erl b/src/jsx.erl
index e9a56b6..968e65e 100644
--- a/src/jsx.erl
+++ b/src/jsx.erl
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ multi_decode_test_() ->
 
 	
 multi_decode(JSON, Flags) ->
-    P = jsx:decoder(Flags ++ [{multi_term, true}]),
+    P = jsx:decoder(Flags ++ [multi_term]),
     multi_decode_loop(P(JSON), [[]]).
 
 multi_decode_loop({jsx, incomplete, _Next}, [[]|Acc]) ->
diff --git a/src/jsx_common.hrl b/src/jsx_common.hrl
index 9c950c9..865ff2e 100644
--- a/src/jsx_common.hrl
+++ b/src/jsx_common.hrl
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 
 
 -type jsx_opts() :: [jsx_opt()].
--type jsx_opt() :: {multi_term, true | false}
+-type jsx_opt() :: multi_term
     | loose_unicode
     | {encoding, auto 
         | utf8
diff --git a/src/jsx_decoder.hrl b/src/jsx_decoder.hrl
index a830411..eda032a 100644
--- a/src/jsx_decoder.hrl
+++ b/src/jsx_decoder.hrl
@@ -139,9 +139,6 @@ parse_opts(Opts) ->
 
 parse_opts([], Opts) ->
     Opts;
-parse_opts([{multi_term, Value}|Rest], Opts) ->
-    true = lists:member(Value, [true, false]),
-    parse_opts(Rest, Opts#opts{multi_term=Value});
 parse_opts([multi_term|Rest], Opts) ->
     parse_opts(Rest, Opts#opts{multi_term=true});
 parse_opts([loose_unicode|Rest], Opts) ->