from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
TO UTTER, crim. law. To offer, to publish.
2. 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. 2. Binn. R. 338, 9. It seems that reading out a
document, although the party refuses to show it, is a sufficient uttering.
Jebb's Ir. Cr. Cas. 282. Vide East, P. C. 179; Leach, 251; 2 Stark. Ev. 378
1 Moody, C. C. 166; 2 East, P. C. 974 Russ. & Ry. 113; 1 Phil. Ev. Index,
h.t.; Roscoe's Cr. Ev. 301. 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. Russ. & Ry. 200. Vide Ringing
the charge.