Criminal Procedure Act, 1851

in indictments in other cases.

7. In all other cases wherever it shall be necessary to make any averment in any indictment as to any instrument, whether the same consists wholly or in part of writing, print, or figures, it shall be sufficient to describe such instrument by any name or designation by which the same may be usually known, or by the purport thereof, without setting out any copy or fac-simile of the whole or any part thereof.

[S. 8 rep. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 95. s. 1.]