False instrument
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A counterfeit; one made in the similitude of a genuine instrument and purporting on its face to be such.
U. S. v. Howell, 11 Wall. 435, 20 L. Ed. 195; U. S. v. Owens (a G.) 37 Fed. 115; State v. Willson, 28 Minn. 52, 9 N. W. 28.