 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 pages
...effusions of Connna's forgetive imagination. Malone. Life of Dryden, p. 3cL>. FORGERY, at Common Law, the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's rights, or a making malo animo of any written instrument for the purpose of fraud and deceit ; the... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 886 pages
...the furnace, it becomes easy to raise the heat to almost any degree required. FORGERY, at common law; the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's rights, or making, mala anhno, of any written instrument for the purpose of fraud and deceit ; the... | |
 | Benjamin Chaplin Pressley - 1848 - 552 pages
...Tomlins, 831. FORGERY. Forgery, at common law, may be defined lo be the fraudulent making Definition. alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right, for rhich the offender may suffer fine, imprisonment, and pillory. Bedes the offence at common law, which... | |
 | William Conway Keele - 1851 - 734 pages
...continues an indictable offence, punishable by fine and imprisonment. — Cr. CC 232. FORGERY. Forgery is the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing, to the prejudice of another man's right. It is a misdemeanor at common law, punishable by fine, imprisonment and pillory. — 4 Bl. Com. 247... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1851 - 544 pages
...Silk.) FLYING SQUIRREL. (See Squirrel.) FOHI. (See Fo.) FONT. (See Fount.) FORGERY, at common law ; the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's rights, or a making, maloanimo, of any written instrument for the purpose of fraud and deceit ; the... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, James Albert Strobhart - 1851 - 258 pages
...familiar judicial language at all times. By the common law, as interpreted by Blackstone, forgery is the " fraudulent making or alteration of a writing, to the prejudice of another's right." We have no reason to distrust the definition, since many text writers, of good repute,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1854 - 846 pages
...transportation or imprisonment. The remaining offence of this class is forgery, which Blackstone defines to be " the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right." At common law this offence was punishable by fine, imprisonment, and the pillory ; but by statutes... | |
 | 1854 - 372 pages
...(4 Black. Com. 176—200; Key, div. " Criminal Law," p. 22, 2nd edit.). XI. Forgery. — Forgery is the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right, with a view to put it forth as a genuine document, so as to defraud some one (Reg. v. Marcutt, 2 Car.... | |
 | Benjamin Boothby - 1854 - 480 pages
...The offence of forgery was] punishable as a misdemeanour by the common law, and has been defined as' "the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right " ('). The falsification of records and other matters of a public nature, as a privy seal (2); of a... | |
 | Henry Richard Dearsly - 1858 - 664 pages
...law was committed. The definition of forgery in 2 Russ. on Crimes and Misdemeanors, p. 318, is said to be " the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right; and at p. 362 it is said, that the "fraud and intention to deceive constitute the chief ingredients... | |
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Forgery at common law has been defined as 'the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right 
