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).