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False instrument

Defined in 1 dictionary — Black's (1910)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A counterfeit; one made in the similitude of a genuine instrument and purporting on its face to be such. U. S. v. Howell, 11 Wall. 435, 20 L. Ed. 195; U. S. v. Owens (a G.) 37 Fed. 115; State v. Willson, 28 Minn. 52, 9 N. W. 28.

Defined under False in Black's Law Dictionary.