currency

Defined in 6 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

United States Code

31 U.S.C. § 5331 — for purposes of this section (2 versions over time)

For purposes of this section, the term “currency” includes—

(A) foreign currency; and

(B) to the extent provided in regulations prescribed by the Secretary, any monetary instrument (whether or not in bearer form) with a face amount of not more than $10,000.

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Coin, or such bank notes as pass freely in commercial transactions and regarded nearly equivalent to coin. 35 111. 163. "Ourrency," In its broad and comprehensive meaning, may be properly used with reference to things of different values, when applied to the medium of exchange of property, but so used does not necessarily mean cash, but is equally applicable to anything which is used as a circulating medium, and is generally accepted in trade as a representative of values of property. 27 111. 506. Currency ia the value of cash, and

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Paper money or notes which are current in the community as dollars. 12 Wall. (U. S.) 687, 20 L. Ed. 460.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

A term commonly used for whatever passes among the people for money, whether gold or silver coin or bank notes. Osgood v. Mc Connell, 32 111. 74; Cockrill v. Kirkpatrick, 9 Mo. 697; Dugan v. Campbell, 1 Ohio 115, 119; Pilmer v. Bank, 16 la. 323; Klauber v.' Biggerstaff, 47 Wis. 560, 3 N. W. 357, 32 Am. Rep. 773.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Coined money and such bank-notes or other paper money as are authorized by law and do in fact circulate from hand to hand as the medium of exchange. Griswold v. Hepburn, 2 Duv. (Ky.) 33; Leonard v. State, 115 Ala. 80, 22 South. 564; Insurance Co. v. Keiron, 27 III. 505; Insurance Co. v. Kupfer, 28 III. 332, 81 Am. Dec. 284; Lackey v. Miller, 61 N. C 26.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Coined..money and such ‘pal court, bank-notes or other paper money as are au- Cursus curie est lex curize. 3 Bulst. thorized by law and do in fact circulate from 53. The practice of the court is the law of hand to hand as the medium of exchange. a the court.