 | Massachusetts. Commissioners on Criminal Law - 1844 - 448 strani
...1826, p. 7, a.21, &c.) gives the following definitions of forgery, viz. By Mr. Justice Blackstone : " The fraudulent making or alteration of a writing, to the prejudice of another's right." (4 Com. 247.) Mr. Justice Buller: " The making a false instrument with intent to deceive." (Rex v.... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1844 - 294 strani
...as if such offender were the true and lawful owner. FORGERY. Forgery is defined by Blackstone as " the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another SENTENCES. life, or for any term not ess than seven years, or imprisonment for any term not... | |
 | Nicholas Hill, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1845 - 726 strani
...aid the prosecutor by an enlarged construction ; but this is not allowable. Forgery is said to be " the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another's right" — " the making of a false instrument with intent to deceive" &c. Now it was urged in the present... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 strani
...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... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 886 strani
...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... | |
 | South Carolina. Court of Appeals, James Albert Strobhart - 1851 - 258 strani
...cases. This has been familiar judicial language at all times. By the common law, as interpreted by Blackstone, forgery is the " fraudulent making or...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, have adopted... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1851 - 544 strani
...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... | |
 | 1854 - 372 strani
...or implied (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.... | |
 | Benjamin Boothby - 1854 - 480 strani
...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... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1854 - 846 strani
...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... | |
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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 
