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Cash

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

That which circulates as money. It is generally held to include bank notes.

9 Johns. (N. Y.) 120; 10 Wheat. (U. S.) 347. But see 3 Halst. (N. J.) 172.

Treasury notes (3 Conn. 534) and gold dust (1 Cal. 49) have been held not to be cash.

See, also, 6 Md. 37; 44 Ala. 402.

Money at command; ready money.

28 Grat. (Va.) 175.

A sale for cash is a sale for money in hand (24 N. J. Law, 101), but a local custom may give the phrase another meaning (3 Mo. App. 149).