Token
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
contracts, crimes, is a document or sign of the existence of a fact. Tokens are either public or general, or privy tokens. ‘They are true or false. Whena token is false and indicates a general intent to defraud, and it is used for that purpose, it will render the offender guilty of the crime of cheating; but if it is a mere privy token, as counterfeiting a letter in another man’s name, in order to cheat but one individual, it would not be indictable.
9 Wend. Rep. 182.