 Forgery is the false making or materially altering with intent to defraud of any writing, which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy, or the foundation of a legal liability.  Lackawanna Jurist - Page 1301907Full view - About this book
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 700 pages
...— what constitutes forgery at common law. Forgery, at common law, is the false making or material altering, with intent to defraud, of any writing which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy or the foundation of a legal liability; and it is not necessary to allege that the writing... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 710 pages
...Marshall, in their late work on the law of crimes, (sec. 392,) define forgery as the false making, with intent to defraud, of any writing which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy or the foundation of a legal liability. From these definitions of the offense it follows that... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1865 - 806 pages
...662-668. Offences depending on and growing out of Forgery. 567-569. Concluding Points. § 495 [432] . FORGERY is the false making or materially altering,...writing, which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy, or the foundation of a legal liability.2 This is the definition which, in the previous volume,... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1868 - 832 pages
...Concluding Points. -^.- «, ,r. § 495.^ FOUGERY is the false making or materially altering, with \ f intent to defraud, of any writing, which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy, or the foundation of a legal liability.2 This is the definition which, in the preceding volume,... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1869 - 656 pages
...referring to them, it will be sufficient to state that adopted at least twice by this court, which is, that forgery is the false making or materially altering,...writing, which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy, or the foundation of a legal liability. State v. Pierce, 8 Iowa, 231 ; Same v. Thompson,... | |
 | Law - 1887 - 542 pages
...that offense. Bishop defines "forgery "to be "the false making or materially altering, with iuteut to defraud, of any writing, which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy, or the foundation of a legal liability." 2 Bish. Criui. Law (7th ed.), § 523. It ia the... | |
 | South Carolina. Supreme Court, J. S. G. Richardson, Robert Wallace Shand, Cyprian Melanchthon Efird, William Hay Townsend, Duncan C. Ray, William Munro Shand - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 632 pages
...does not state the price of the cotton; that it constituted no liability. 2 Forgery is : "The material altering, with intent to defraud, of any writing which, if genuine, might apparently be the foundation of a legal liability." Black's Dictionary. When the paper was delivered by the weigher... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1874 - 1324 pages
...riirht or liability. A better definition is that in Bishop's "Criminal Law," vol. ii., sec. 482 : " Forgery is the false making, or materially altering,...writing, which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy in the foundation of a legal liability." For it is not every falsification of writing which... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1874 - 872 pages
...legal right or liability. A better definition is thut in Bishop's " Criminal Law," vol. ii., sec. 432 : "Forgery is the false making, or materially altering,...writing, which, if genuine, might apparently be of l«gal efficacy in the foundation of a legal liability." For it is not every falsification of writing... | |
 | Thomas Foster Withrow, Edward Holcomb Stiles - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 616 pages
...Ibid. ' 763. False making or alteration with intent to defraud. False making or materially alter ing, with intent to defraud, of any writing which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy is forgery. The State of Iowa v. Johnson and Johnson, 26 Iowa, 407 ; and The State v. lfu»np»on.... | |
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