 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1922 - 700 lapas
...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 would, if genuine, have created a legal... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1865 - 806 lapas
...Points. § 495 [432] . 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.2 This is the definition which, in the previous volume, was for the sake of clearness given... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - 1866 - 634 lapas
...one, without authority and falsely, and with intent to defraud, the name of another to an instrument which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy, or the foundation of a legal liability. 4. Instruction : HYPOTHETICAL. An instruction to the jury that if the defendant did certain... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - 1869 - 656 lapas
...same offense." Id. 10. FORGERY. 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, is forgery. The State v. Johnson <t Johnson, 407. 11. INDICTMENT IN FORGERY. While in an... | |
 | 1887 - 542 lapas
...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 "fraudulent making and alteration of a... | |
 | 1889 - 546 lapas
...very definitions however which he cites under his first point speak of the written instrument as one which, "if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy, or the foundation of a legal liahility," or "by which another may be prejudiced." It is not necessary that the subject of forgery... | |
 | Thomas Foster Withrow, Edward Holcomb Stiles - 1874 - 616 lapas
...one, without authority and falsely, and with intent to defraud, the name of another to an instrument which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy or the foundation of a legal liability. The State of Iowa v. Thcrmpiion, 19 Iowa, 299. 748. Alteration of receipt. An alteration... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - 1875 - 858 lapas
...defined by an American author, " is the false making or materially altering, with intent to defraud, of e (x). In an indictment for murder or manslaughter, or for being an accessory to either of these of liability." 2 Bieh. Crim. Law, § 523. See Slate v. Thompson, 19 Iowa, 299, 303 ; State v. Pierce,... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - 1877 - 766 lapas
...one, without authority, and falsely, with intent to defraud, of the name of another to an instrument which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy, or the foundation of a legal liability. State v. Thompson, 19 Iowa, 299; State v. State vs. Coyle. Kimball, 50 Me., 409; Ames1 Case,... | |
 | Jabez Franklin Cowdery - 1878 - 842 lapas
...See MORTGAGE. FORGERY. Forgery. — The falsely making or materially altering with intent to defraud, any writing, which if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy or tho foundation of a legal liability. See CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. FRANCHISE. Franchise. — A special... | |
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Forgery is the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another's rights. United States v. Long, 80 Fed. Rep. 678; People v. DeOraaf, 1 Wheeler CC 208. Forgery is the false making or materially altering with intent to defraud of... 
