[Mad Dawg]

"Uttering" is proffering a forged instrument, like a cheque. You have two parts to forgery, doing the actual forgery and "uttering" it, namely presenting the cheque at your local... whatever.

[Alia]

Two years ago, I went looking into this "uttering" stuff. Asked the locals, too. You are right about the "forged" stuff. There's more on this criminal "definition" of uttering. But there are also other appelations of the term "uttering" (mostly in UK and Canada):

17. Junger/Whitehead Inquiry: Treatment of Victims The charge was uttering a threat to cause death or bodily harm. Constable G. pleaded guilty to a lesser criminal charge of conveying a false message with ... www.walnet.org/csis/reports/junger_inquiry/chapter... [Found on Google, MSN Search]

So, "uttering" in America is about forged monies or embezzelment. Why call it "uttering"?

Wow. So in US Law: Uttering is using the falsified doc by a second or third party -- kinda like aiding and abetting a crime? Why the heck is it called "uttering". Did they mean stuttering?