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Forgery

Forgery [fr. forger, Fr.; or fingo, Lat.], the crimen falsi, or the false making or alteration of an instrument,

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

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

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Void and voidable

act unless avoided, e.g., if a suit is filed for a declaration that a document is fraudulent and/or forged and fabricated, it is voidable as the apparent state of affairs is the real state of affairs and

Great Seal

called Ireland. See Great Seal Acts, 1880 and 1884. See now IRELAND and statutes there cited. As to forging these seals, see Forgery Act, 1913, s. 5. Consult Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, Intro.; Wyon's Great Seals