genuine

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Case Law, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889)

Definitions from Case Law

United States Supreme Court

actually having the reputed or apparent qualities or character.

Defined by the Supreme Court in Professional Real Estate Investors Inc v. Columbia Pictures Industries Inc, 508 U.S. 49 (1993).

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Not spurious or counterfeit. Used in relation to a written instrument, it does not cover either the authority (149 N. QERECHT8B0DE (Belg.)

In old New York law. A court messenger or constable. O'Callaghan, New Neth. 322.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Real or original, as opposed to counterfeit or adulterated.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Not false, fletitious, simulated, spurious, counterfeit Baldwin v. Van Deusen, 37 N. Y. 492.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

As applied to notes, bonds, and other written instruments, this term means that they are truly what they purport to be, and that they are not false, forged, fictitious, simulated, spurious or counterfeit. Baldwin v. Van Deusen, 37 N. Y. 492; Smelt-zer v. White, 92 U. S. 392, 23 In Ed. 508; Dow v. Spenny, 29 Mo. 390; Cox v. Northwestern Stage Co., 1 Idaho, 379.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

Belonging to the original kind or stock; native; hence, not false, fictitious, simulated, spurious, or counterfeit: as, a genuine note.l Genuineness. Of an instrument — predicates that it is the act of the party as represented; that the signature is not spurious, that nothing has heen added to or taken away from it that would lay the party changing the instrument or signing the name liable to forgery.2 See Counterfeit; False; Forge, 2; Spurious.