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legal tender
n.
Legally valid currency that may be offered in payment of a debt and that a creditor must accept.
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Universalium. 2010.
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Universalium. 2010.
Legal Tender Cases — The Legal Tender Cases were a series of United States Supreme Court cases in the latter part of the nineteenth century that affirmed the constitutionality of paper money. In the 1870 case of Hepburn v. Griswold , the Court had held that paper… … Wikipedia