Utter
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
To publish; to pass or give currency to. In Criminal Law. The presentation or passing as genuine of a forgery or counterfeit. To constitute the crime of uttering a forged instrument, the instrument must, with knowledge of its forged character, be asserted to be good, either directly or indirectly, by words or actions.
1 Whart. Crim. Law, § 703; 2 Bin. (Pa.) 332.
The instrument need not be passed; it is enough if it is presented or offered as genuine.
25 Mich. 388; 48 Mo. 520.