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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 Many of these statutes were consolidated by 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 66, repealed and replaced by the Forgery Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict.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...
Accountable receipt
Accountable receipt, a written acknowledgment of the receipt of money or goods to be accounted for by the receiver. It differs from an ordinary receipt, or acquittance, in this, that the latter imports merely that money has been paid. See Clark v. Newsam, (1847) 1 Ex. 131. By the (English) Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27), ss. 2(2) and 18, the forgery of an accountable receipt, or any assignment thereof or endorsement thereon with intent to defraud, is a felony punishable with penal servitude for not exceeding 14 years....
Accounts, falsification of
Accounts, falsification of, a misdemeanour on the part of a clerk, etc., by the (English) Falsification of Accounts Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. C. 24), punishable by penal servitude up to seven years or imprisonment, with or without hard labour, up to two years, see R. v. Oliphant, 1905 (2) KB 67. The document or account mentioned in s. 1 of that Act must belong to or be in possession of the employer, R. v. Palin, 1906 (1) KB 7. Falsification of accounts may amount to forgery within the (English) Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27) [Re Arton, 1896 (1) QB 509]. The falsification of a mechanical means of recording an account, e.g., a taxi-meter, and thereby defrauding the employer, is within the Act, R. v. Solomons, (1909) 2 KB 980. As to officers of companies and bodies corporate keeping fradulent accounts, etc., see (English) Larceny Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. C. 96), ss. 82-84, and (English) Larceny Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 20; in the case of a company being wound up. (Engli...
Acquintance
Acquintance, means a document by which one is discharged from a debt or other obligation, a receipt or release indications payment in full, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 24.Acquittance is a discharge in writing of a sum of money or duty which ought to be paid or done; as where a man is bound to pay money on a bond, rent reserved upon a lease, etc., and the party to whom it is due, on receipt thereof, gives a writing under his hand witnessing that he is paid, this will be such a discharge in Law that he cannot demand and recover the sum or duty again, if the acquittance be produced, Termes de la Ley. As to forgery of an acquittance. [see (English) Forgery Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 27), s. 2(2) (a), s. 18 (1)]...
Births, Marriages, and Deaths
Births, Marriages, and Deaths. By the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 86), amended by the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1837 (7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 22), a General Register Office is provided for keeping a register of births, deaths, and marriages in England. The Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1874 [37 & 38 (English) Vict. c. 88], amends the laws relating to the Registration of Births and Deaths in England in important particulars, and consolidates the law relating to the registration of births and deaths at sea. This Act (s. 1) imposes upon the father and mother of a child, and in their default, upon the occupier of a house in which to his knowledge a child is born, the duty of giving information to the registrar within 42 days. By s. 10 a corresponding obligation to register a death is imposed upon relatives, etc.By s. 203 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, births of any child alive or dead after the twenty-eighth week of ...
Bond
Bond [fr. binda, band, bunden, A. S., to bind], a written acknowledgement or binding of a debt under seal. See DEED. No technical form of words is necessary to constitute a bond; see Gerrard v. Clowes, (1892) 2 QB 11; Strickland v. Williams, (1899) 1 QB 382. The person giving the bond is called the obligor, and he to whom it is given the obligee. A bond is called single (simplex obligatio) when it is without a penalty, but there is generally a condition added, that, if the obligor does or forbears from some act, the obligation shall be void, or else shall remain in full force, and the bond is then called a double or conditional one; see Dav. Prec. Vol. V., pt. Ii., p. 268. When a bond contains a penalty, which is generally double the amount of the principal sum secured, only the sum actually owing, with interest, can be recovered, and in no case can this exceed the amount appearing on the face of the bond. See 8 & 9 Wm. 3, c. 11, s. 8; Re Dixon, (1900) 2 Ch 561.Although it is unnecessa...
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