Genuine
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
Belonging to the original kind or stock; native; hence, not false, fictitious, simulated, spurious, or counterfeit: as, a genuine note.l Genuineness. Of an instrument — predicates that it is the act of the party as represented; that the signature is not spurious, that nothing has heen added to or taken away from it that would lay the party changing the instrument or signing the name liable to forgery.2 See Counterfeit; False; Forge, 2; Spurious.