forgery

  • 21forgery — The legal offence of making a false instrument in order that it may be accepted as genuine, thereby causing harm to others. Under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act (1981), an instrument may be a document or any device (e. g. magnetic tape) on… …

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  • 22forgery — The *fraudulent copying or imitation of an asset or document. Items typically subject to forgery include (i) signatures, (ii) money, and (iii) works of art …

    Auditor's dictionary

  • 23forgery — /ˈfɔdʒəri / (say fawjuhree) noun (plural forgeries) 1. the making of a fraudulent imitation of a thing, or of something spurious which is put forth as genuine, as a coin, a work of art, a literary production, etc. 2. something, as a coin, a work… …

  • 24forgery — The false making or the material altering of a document with the intent to defraud. A signature of a person that is made without the person s consent and without the person otherwise authorizing it. A person is guilty of forgery if, with purpose… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 25forgery — The false making or the material altering of a document with the intent to defraud. A signature of a person that is made without the person s consent and without the person otherwise authorizing it. A person is guilty of forgery if, with purpose… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 26Forgery, Forger — • The deliberate untruthfulness of an assertion, or in the deceitful presentation of an object, and is based on an intention to deceive and to injure while using the externals of honesty Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Forgery, Forger… …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 27Forgery (MAC) — In a digital signature or Message Authentication Code (MAC) system, a Selective forgery is the creation (by an adversary) of chosen message m and a valid signature (or MAC) sigma for m, where m has not been signed or MACed in the past by the… …

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  • 28forgery bond — noun : insurance against loss from forgery or alteration of negotiable instruments or evidences of debt or ownership …

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  • 29forgery — noun (plural eries) Date: 1583 1. archaic invention 2. something forged 3. an act of forging; especially the crime of falsely and fraudulently making or altering a document (as a check) …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 30forgery — A sharp way of raising some of the problems of aesthetic theory is to ask why fakes and forgeries, however good, are typically valued much less highly than originals. The difference may seem to be a snobbish and insignificant by product of the… …

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