As applied to notes, bonds, and other .written Instruments, this term means that they are truly what they pur-port 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. 8. 392, 23 L. Ed. 508; Dow v. Spenny, 29 Mo. 390; Cox v. Northwestern Stage Co., 1 Idaho, 379
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
