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Counterfeit

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In criminal law. To make something false in the semblance of that which is true.

It always implies a fraudulent intent

Generally applied to the imitation of coin of the realm.