UTTER - to exhibit or display a document
to someone else; (a check)any attempt to cash a check
or otherwise place it in circulation, and in so doing
to state or imply, directly or indirectly, that the check
and the endorsement is genuine
To offer, to publish.
To utter and publish a counterfeit note is to assert
and declare, directly or indirectly, by words or actions,
that the note offered is good. It is not necessary that
it should be passed in order to complete the offence
of uttering. It seems that reading out a document, although
the party refuses to show it, is a sufficient uttering.
The merely showing a false instrument with intent to
gain a credit when there was no intention or attempt
made to pass it, it seems would not amount to an uttering.
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