| 单词 | legal tender |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslegal tender legal tender n. coin or other money, which a creditor is bound by law to accept when tendered in payment of a debt. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > [noun] > coins and notes > kind of money > current or legal lawful1533 going1591 pass-gilt1657 real money1675 legal tender?1730 legal tender1740 ?1730 Reasons offered to Parl. for lessening National-debts & Taxes 3/1 The prodigious scarcity of our Silver-Coin, which is the Chief, If not the only Legal Tender among us. 1865 H. Phillips Amer. Paper Currency II. 49 The Virginia convention had made the continental bills a legal tender. 2011 C. Bamford Princ. Internat. Financial Law ii. 13 Whether particular notes or coins are given the status of legal tender depends on statute. legal tender 4. (esp. legal tender, lawful tender, or common tender.) Money or other things that may be legally tendered or offered in payment; currency prescribed by law as that in which payment may be made.In the United Kingdom, Bank of England notes are legal tender up to any amount throughout the country; fifty-pence coins are legal tender for sums not exceeding £10; other current cupro-nickel coins for sums not exceeding £5; and current bronze coins for sums not exceeding twenty pence (1988). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > [noun] > coins and notes > kind of money > current or legal lawful1533 going1591 pass-gilt1657 real money1675 legal tender?1730 legal tender1740 1740 W. Douglass Disc. Currencies Brit. Plantations in Amer. 20 France never made their State Bills a common Tender. 1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) i. 27 Indian corn..was made a tender in discharge of all debt. 1777 Jrnls. Amer. Congress 14 June Recommended..to pass laws to make the bills of credit, issued by the Congress, a lawful tender, in payments of public and private debts. 1838–42 T. Arnold Hist. Rome II. xxvii. 73 Land and cattle became legal tender at a certain fixed rate of value. 1866 A. Crump Pract. Treat. Banking iv. 95 A cheque is not a legal tender, and for that reason may be objected to. 1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols xxxii. 369 In Urga, brick tea and silver are the common tenders. < as lemmas |
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