nd [wm 1794]

Coin

2

Different as they are in respect of their degrees of guilt, they agree so far however, as to be both of them referable without impropriety to the head of fraud: the one a criminal fraud, the other a venial fraud.

A fraud in general is where a man obtains or endeavours or studies to obtain by means of some false assertion expressed or implied – i:e: expressed by words or by behaviour expressed according to the nature of the transaction, some gain which is not his due and which he knows not to be his due /that asserts[?] or known by him to be false/.

A fraud relative to the Coin is where the medium by which the unlawful and known to be unlawful gain is made or attempted to be made is a mass of matter to which for this purpose endeavours are used to give the resemblance of some metallic mass to which a particular form has been given by the authority of the government of some political state for the purpose of certifying to mankind in general the quantity and quality of it.