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forge forged forg·ing vt : to make, alter, or imitate (as a writing) falsely with intent to defraud : counterfeit vi : to commit forgery forg·er n ...
drop forge
a device for making large forgings in which a heavy hammer drops onto the metalwork to be forged pressing it into a form or anvil underneath or between dies...
forged
Not genuine counterfeit used mostly of signatures and documents See forge v t 4...
Forgery
Forgery [fr. forger, Fr.; or fingo, Lat.], the crimen falsi, or the false making or alteration of an instrument, which purports on the face of it to be good and valid for the purposes for which it was created, with a design to defraud. The forged instrument must be false in itself. The mere subscribing a note, given as the party's own, by a fictitious name, was held not to be forgery, Reg. v. Martin, (1879) 5 QBD 34.The act of fraudulently making a false document or altering a real one to be used as if genuine, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 661.Forgery at Common Law was a misdemeanour but most forgeries have been made felony by statute. Many of these statutes were consolidated by 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 66, repealed and replaced by the Forgery Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 98), but the law now principally depends on the Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27, 'an Act to consolidate, simplify and amend the law relating to forgery and kindred offences.' It repeals such portions of s...
dropforge
to forge with a drop forge of metals...
Actions rescissory
Actions rescissory are either (1) actions of proper improbation for declaring a writing false or forged; (2) actions of reduction-improbation, for the production of a writing in order to have it set aside or its effect ascertained under the certification that the writing if not produced shall be declared false or forged; or (3) actions of simple reduction, for declaring a writing called for null until produced, Scots Law...
Mistake
Mistake, misconception, error.Money paid under a mistake of a material fact, as where a person discounts a forged bill, is recoverable (though a banker paying the forged cheque of a customer cannot charge the customer with the loss), and see Jones & Co. v. aring & Gillow Ltd., 1926 AC 670; but money paid under a mistake of law is ordinarily not recoverable, Holt v. Markham, (1923) 1 KB 504, though there is an exception in the case where an officer of a Court or a trustee in bankruptcy has received the money [Ex P. Simmonds, (1885) 16 QBD 308]. A contract is not voidable because it was caused by a mistake as to any law in force in India; but a mistake as to a law in force in India has the same effect as a mistake of fact. (The Indian Contract Act, 1872, s. 21)It is a common condition of the sale of land that any error or misdescription shall not vitiate the sale, and mayor may not be made the subject of compensation, and this condition applies whether an error complained of was discover...
Void and voidable
Void and voidable. There is this difference between these two words: void means that an instrument or transaction is so nugatory and ineffectual that nothing can cure it; voidable, when an imperfection or defect can be cured by the act or confirmation of him who could take advantage of it. Thus, while acceptance of rent will make good a voidable lease, it will not affirm a void lease. See NULL AND VOID.The expression 'void' has several facets. One type of void acts, transactions, decrees are those which are wholly without jurisdiction, ab initio void and for avoiding the same, no declaration is necessary, law does not take any notice of the same and it can be disregarded in collateral proceeding or otherwise. The other type of void act, e.g., may be transaction against a minor without being represented by a next friend. Such a transaction is a good transaction against the whole world. So far as the minor is concerned, if he decides to avoid the same and succeeds in avoiding it by takin...
counterfeit
counterfeit [Middle French contrefait, past participle of contrefaire to imitate, draw, paint, from contre- counter- + faire to make] : made in imitation of a genuine article (as a document) without authorization and esp. with intent to deceive or defraud vt : to make an imitation of without authorization and esp. with intent to deceive or defraud [whoever falsely makes, alters, forges, or s any deed "U.S. Code"] coun·ter·feit·er n n : something counterfeit [all s of any coins or obligations "U.S. Code"] compare forgery ...
forgery
forgery pl: -er·ies 1 : the act of falsely making, altering, or imitating (as a document or signature) with intent to defraud ;also : the crime of committing such an act 2 : something that is forged ...
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