Shin-Plaster
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
The terms shinplasters, small bills, small notes, have no established definitions. Tlie object of the legislature, in passing an act to prohibit the issue and circulation of bills or notes so designated, may be supposed to he to prevent the circulation of any or all bills and notes intended and issued to be used as a circulating medium, in place of, or as a substitute ' for, bank-notes. Madison Ins. Co. ».
Forsythe, 2 Ind. 483.