rm has also been applied in the United States to warrants or other like orders drawn on a municipal treasury (Alma v. Guaranty Sav. Bank, 60 Fed. 207, 8 C. C. A. 564.) to certificates showing the holder to be entitled to a certnin portion or allott-ment of public or state lands, (wait v. State Land office Coin’r, 87 Mich. 353, 49 N. W. 600.) and to the fractional paper currency issued by the United States during the pe-riod of the Civil war
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
