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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

As applied to notes, bonds, and other written instruments, this term means that they are truly what they purport to be, and that they are not false, forged, fictitious, simulated, spurious or counterfeit.

Baldwin v. Van Deusen, 37 N. Y. 492; Smelt-zer v. White, 92 U. S. 392, 23 In Ed. 508; Dow v. Spenny, 29 Mo. 390; Cox v. Northwestern Stage Co., 1 Idaho, 379.