Token
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A document or sign of the existence of a fact. Tokens are either public or general, or privy tokens. They are either true or false. When a token is false and indicates a general Intent to defraud, and is used for that purpose, it will render the offender guilty of the crime of cheating; People v. Johnson, 12 Johns. (N. Y.) 292; 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; People v. Stone, 9 Wend. (N. Y.) 182; Respublica v. Powell, 1 Dali. (Pa.) 47, 1 L. Ed. 31.