 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1922 - 700 pages
...— what constitutes forgery at common law. Forgery, at common law, is the false making or material altering, with intent to defraud, of any writing which,...legal efficacy or the foundation of a legal liability; and it is not necessary to allege that the writing would, if genuine, have created a legal liability,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1908 - 710 pages
...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 pages
...Offences depending on and growing out of Forgery. 567-569. Concluding Points. § 495 [432] . FORGERY is the false making or materially altering, with intent...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... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1868 - 832 pages
...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... | |
 | 1887 - 542 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...liability. A better definition is that in Bishop's "Criminal Law," vol. ii., sec. 482 : " Forgery is the false making, or materially altering, with intent...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... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1874 - 872 pages
...liability. A better definition is thut in Bishop's " Criminal Law," vol. ii., sec. 432 : "Forgery is the false making, or materially altering, with intent...writing, which, if genuine, might apparently be of l«gal efficacy in the foundation of a legal liability." For it is not every falsification of writing... | |
 | Thomas Foster Withrow, Edward Holcomb Stiles - 1874 - 616 pages
...Ibid. ' 763. False making or alteration with intent to defraud. False making or materially alter ing, with intent to defraud, of any writing which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy is forgery. The State of Iowa v. Johnson and Johnson, 26 Iowa, 407 ; and The State v. lfu»np»on.... | |
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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. 
