 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1865 - 806 sider
...Bald. 370. See Ry. 65 ; Rex v. Gade, 2 Leach, 4th d still other words, the forged instrument, to be matter of indictment, must appear on its face to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created.1 It must be, in another aspect, such that, if it were genuine, it would be evidence of the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell Foster, William Francis Finlason - 1867 - 1150 sider
...the prejudice of another man's right, and so as that the instrument shall purport on the face of it to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created ; and that any material alteration is a forgery, as appears on the face of it, when in fact there is... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - 1868 - 832 sider
...on a charge of forgery.6^!!! still other words, the forged instrument, to be the foundation for an indictment, must appear on its face to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created.7 It must be, in another aspect, such that, if it were genuine, it would be evidence of the... | |
 | 1870 - 1094 sider
...366, " The definition of forgery is the false making an instrument which purports on the face of it to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created with a design to defraud," &c. Again, at p. 855, East says it is forgery " if he make a subsequent... | |
 | Amasa Junius Parker - 1872 - 720 sider
...legal existence as that of the other. " Forgery is the false making of an instrument which purports, on its face, to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created." (1 Hawkins, ch. 70, § 7 ; 2 East PC, ch. 19, § 45 ; 1 Leach, 407, 547 ; 9 Wend. R, Shalts Case.)... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1873 - 622 sider
...words, the forged VOL. XXXVII— 6 Hotchkiss v. Olmsteacl. instrument, to be the foundation for an indictment, must appear on its face to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was' created." The case of Drummond v. Leslie, 5 Blackf. 453, is very much in point. That was an action for slander.... | |
 | 1877 - 558 sider
...only, are illegal and void, ftoode v. Slate. —It an instrument does not purport on the face of it to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created, it cannot legally be the subject of forgery, if not genuine. Anlhnnn v. Afaiiory. — A sale and delivery... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 888 sider
...Palmer's Case, id. 366, that the instrument to be the subject of forgery must "purport on the face of it to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created." 2 Bish. Crim. Law, § 506. The demurrer to the indictment should have been sustained. Aultman v. Mallory.... | |
 | 1883 - 434 sider
...writing, to the prejudice of another man's right, or the false making of an instrument, which purports on its face to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created, with a design to defraud any person or persons. In 3 Greenleaf 's Evidence, sec. 103, to the former... | |
 | 1885 - 704 sider
...The court remarked that the instrument, to be the subject of forgery, must purport on the face of it to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created. For the reason that criminal forgery was not averred in the second count in the indictment, nor proved... | |
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In still other words, the forged instrument, to be the foundation for an indictment, must appear on its face to be good and valid for the purpose for which it was created. 
