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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 Many of these statutes were consolidated by 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 66, repealed and replaced by the Forgery Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict.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...
Forgery, fraud
Forgery, fraud, Forgery has its origin in the French word 'Forger', which signifies 'to frame or fashion a thing as the smith doth his work upon the anvil. And it is used in our law for the fraudulent making and publishing of false writings to the prejudice of another man's right (Terms de la Ley) (Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Fifth Edition Vol. 2). In Webster Comprehensive Dictionary, Internatio-nal Education, 'Forgery' is defined as: 'The act of falsely making or materially altering, was intent to defraud; any writing which, if genuine, might be of legal efficacy or the foundation of a legal liability', Indian Bank v. Satyam Fibres, AIR 1996 SC 2592 (2598): (1996) 5 SCC 550....
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 ...
Bank-notes, or Bank-bills
Bank-notes, or Bank-bills, written or printed promises for money, to be paid by a banking company. They are uniformly made payable on demand. They are not like bills of exchange, mere securities or documents for debt, nor are they so esteemed, but are treated as money in the ordinary course and transactions of business by the general consent of mankind, and, on payment of them, whenever a receipt is required, it is always given as for money, not as for securities or notes. Per Lord Mansfield, Miller v. Race, (1758) 1 Burr at p. 457. Bank of England notes were made a legal tender by the 5th section of the Bank of England Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 98), as amended, everywhere except at the Bank and its branches.One-pound notes and ten-shilling notes are now issued by the Bank of England, under the authority of the (English) Currency and Bank Notes (Amendment) Act, 1928, and made a legal tender for a payment of any amount. The notes first issued were found to be easy to forge, and they we...
Crimen falsi
Crimen falsi, forgery.Crimen falsi dicitur, cum quis illicitus, cui non fuerit ad h'c data auctoritas, de sigillo regis rapto vel invento, brevia cartasue consignaverit. Fleta, 1, c. xxiii.-(The crime of forgery is when any one illicitly, to whom power has not been given for such purposes, has signed writs or chartrs with the king's seal, either stolen or found.) See FORGERY...
Seal
Seal, wax or wafer with an impression. By the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 73, deeds executed after 1925 must be signed or marked (by illiterates or blind persons), as well as sealed. As to the forgery of seals and dies, see Forgery Act, 1913, s. 5; and for the definition of 'seal,' see s. 18.An impression or sign that has legal consequence when applied to an instrument 2. A Eastening that must be broken before access can be obtained, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.By (English) R.S.C. Ord. LXI., r. 7, the seal o the central office is sufficient to authorize as evidence office copies, or certificates and other documents issued from the central office of the Supreme Court. As to the seal of district registrars, see Judic. Act, 1925, s. 9, and see CORPORATION.Means a device or process by which a stamp is made, and includes any wire or other accessory which is used for ensuring the integrity of any stamp. [Standards of Weight and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), s. 2(w)]...
Uttering
Uttering, tendering; selling; putting in circulation; publishing. Knowingly uttering counterfeit coin is a misdemeanour, and after two prior convictions a felony, by the Coinage Offences Act, 1861, s. 21. Knowingly uttering a forged document is punishable as forgery, The (English) Forgery Act, 1913, s. 6.The crime of presenting a false or worthiness instrument with intent to harm or defraud, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Title to lands, Documents of
Title to lands, Documents of. As to dealing with title-deeds as mere personal chattels, see Swanley Coal Co. v. Denton, (1906) 2 KB 873. Properly speak-ing, however, they are not chattels; Coke calls them 'the sinewes of the land' (Co. Litt.6 a), and they are so closely connected with it that they will pass, on a conveyance of the land, without being expressly mentioned; the property in the deeds passes out of the vendor to the purchaser simply by the grant of the land itself, Williams on Personal Property. Sec. 45 (1) of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, provides that a vendor shall be entitled to retain documents of title where (a) he retains any part of the land to which the documents relate, or (b) the document consists of a trust instrument or other instrument creating a trust which is still subsisting or in instrument relating to the appointment or discharge of a trustee of a subsisting trust. As a rule the estate owner (q.v.) is entitled to possession of the documents rel...
Stamp duties
Stamp duties, a branch of the revenue. They are a tax imposed on all parchment and paper whereon certain legal proceedings and certain private ins-truments re written; and on licences for various purposes.The consolidating Stamp Act, 1870, superseded the very numerous older enactments [in great part repealed by the (English) Inland Revenue Repeal Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 90)] in regard to the duty on the various classes of instruments, but by s. 17 of the Stamp Act, 1870 (re-enacted by s. 14 of the Stamp Act, 1891), reversing the former law, see Buckworth v. Simpson, (1835) 1 CM&R 384, the stamp to be affixed to an unstamped document to render it admissible in evidence was not the stamp in accordance with the law at the time of affixing it, but the stamp in accordance with the law in force at the time when the document was first executed.Very important alterations in the law of stamps were effected by the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1888. Prior to that Act it was no offence not ...
Wills
Wills. A will is the valid disposition by a living person, to take effect after his death, of his disposable property. ''But in law ultima voluntas in scriptis is used, where lands or tenements are devised, and testamentum, when it concerneth chattels': Co. Litt. 111 a.Depository of Will of Living Person.-By the (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 172, replacing s. 91 of the Court of Probate Act, 1857:-There shall, under the control and direction of the High Court, be provided safe and convenient depositories for the custody of the wills of living persons, and any person may deposit his will therein.And see (English) Administration of Justice Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 26), s. 11, as to deposit of wills under control of the High Court.Law before 1838.-The right of testamentary aliena-tion of lands is a matter depending on Act of Parliament. Before 32 Hen. 8, c. 1, a will could not be made of land, and before the Statute of Frauds a will (see NUNCUPATIVE WILL) could be made by word of mouth...
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