Privy Token
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
By stat.
33 Henry VIII. c.
1, punishment is provided against those evil-disposed persons who devised how they might unlawfully get into their possession goods, chattels, and jewels of other persons by “privy tokens and counterfeit letters in other men’s names,” unto divers persons their friends and acquaintances, by color whereof they have unlawfully obtained the same. A false privy token within the statute has generally been taken to denote some seal, visible mark, or thing, as a key, a ring, etc.
13 Viner, Abr. 460.
When one makes use of a false token, he is indictable for the cheat, though the act is not larceny; 1 Bish. Cr. L. § 585. But when the consent obtained covers no more than the possession, and the goods are converted to his own use, the offence becomes larceny; 1 Leach 420; East, PI.
Cr. 691.
See False Token; Cheat.