 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1922 - 700 páginas
...195, the court adopted as the correct definition of forgery at common law the false making or material altering, with intent to defraud, of any writing which,...legal efficacy or the foundation of a legal liability. It is not necessary to allege that the instrument forged, if genuine, would have created a legal liability,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1908 - 710 páginas
...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,...legal efficacy or the foundation of a legal liability. From these definitions of the offense it follows that three essential elements must exist to constitute... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1865 - 806 páginas
...out of Forgery. 567-569. Concluding Points. § 495 [432] . FORGERY is the false making or materially altering, with intent to defraud, of any writing,...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 páginas
...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 acts specified,... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1868 - 832 páginas
...Concluding Points. -^.- «, ,r. § 495.^ FOUGERY is the false making or materially altering, with \ f intent to defraud, of any writing, which, if genuine,...be of legal efficacy, or the foundation of a legal liability.2 This is the definition which, in the preceding volume, was for the sake of clearness given... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - 1869 - 656 páginas
...shall, after acquittal, be tried for the same offense." Id. 10. FORGERY. The false making or materially altering, with intent to defraud, of any writing which,...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 indictment... | |
 | 1887 - 542 páginas
...that offense. Bishop defines "forgery "to be "the false making or materially altering, with iuteut to defraud, of any writing, which, if genuine, might...efficacy, or the foundation of a legal liability." 2 Bish. Criui. Law (7th ed.), § 523. It ia the "fraudulent making and alteration of a writing to the... | |
 | 1889 - 546 páginas
...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... | |
 | South Carolina. Supreme Court, J. S. G. Richardson, Robert Wallace Shand, Cyprian Melanchthon Efird, William Hay Townsend, Duncan C. Ray, William Munro Shand - 1918 - 632 páginas
...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 - 1874 - 1324 páginas
...that in Bishop's "Criminal Law," vol. ii., sec. 482 : " Forgery is the false making, or materially altering, with intent to defraud, of any writing,...if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy in the foundation of a legal liability." For it is not every falsification of writing which constitutes... | |
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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. 
