Forge

To fabricate, construct, or pre pare one thing in imitation of another thing, with the intention of substituting the false for the genuine, or otherwise deceiving and defrauding by the use of the spurious artiels, To counterfeit or make falsely. Especially, to make a spurious written instrument with the intention of fraudulently substituting it for another, or of passing it off as genuine; or to fraudulently altera genuine instrumen to another's prejudice; or to sign another person’s name to a document, with a deceit. fu) and fraudulent intent. To forge (a metaphorical expression, borrowed from the occupation of the smith) means, properly speaking, no more than to make or form, but ip our lawit is always taken in anevilsense.

2 Hast, P. C. p. 852, e. 19, § 1.

To forge is to make in the likeness of something elsa; to counterfeit is to make in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud by passing the faise copy for gcnuinecroriginal. Both words, “forged” and “counterfeited,” convey the idea of similitude.

42 Me, 202.

In common usage, however, forgery is almost always predicated of some private instrument or writing, as a deed, note, will, or a signature; and counterfeiting denotes the frauduleat imitation of coined or papér money or some substitute there for.