If the contract is one for the payment of money generally, tender must be made in such money as is legal tender.1 Coin which is legal tender is not deprived of that quality by being worn as long as it retains the appearance of a coin issued from the mint.2 A tender of base money has been said to be sufficient if such money is actually current.3 Tender in bank notes,4 or by check,5 even if such check would have been paid if it had been presented and accepted,6 or by a certified check,7 or a certificate of deposit,8 or by a "time check" tendered to an employe,9 or chattels,10 is insufficient tender of a debt payable in money if objection is made upon that ground. So if a debt is due to the state, tender can not be made in state warrants which have no connection with the debt.11 It has been held that a bank must accept its own notes as payment, and hence that such a tender is good.12 A tender of the same kind of money as that borrowed, and the only kind in general circulation in that community, has been held sufficient.13

6 Salter v. Shove, CO Minn. 483, 62 N. W. 1126; Hopkins Mfg. Co. v. Ketterer, 237 Pa. St. 285, 85 Atl. 421; Hirsh v. Ogden Furniture & Carpet Co., 48 Utah 434, 160 Pac. 283.

7 Crawford v. Osmun, 94 Mich. 533, 64 N. W. 284.

8 Grand Lodge of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Clark, - Ind. - , 127 N. E. 280; Holmberg v. Will, 52 Okla. 745, 153 Pac. 832; Chipman v. Bates, 5 Vt. 143; Vergonis v. Vaseleou, 105 Wash. 441, 178 Pac. 463.

9 Chipman v. Bates, 5 Vt. 143.

10 Hyde v. Heller, 10 Wash. 586, 39 Pac. 249.

11 Briede v. Babst, 131 La 159, 59 So. 106.

12 Gunby v Ingram. 57 Wash 97, 30 L. R. A. (N.S.) 232, 106 Pac. 495.

13 Gunby v. Ingram, 57 Wash 97, 36 L. R A. (N.S.) 232. 106 Pac. 495.

1 Servel v Jamieson, 255 Fed. 892. See, Legal Tender, by James B.

Thayer, 1 Harvard Law Review, 73.

2 Mobile St. Ry. v Walter*, 135 Ala. 227, 33 So. 42; Jersey City & Bergen Ry. v. Morgan, 52 N. J. L. 60 [sub nomine, Morgan v. Jersey City & Bergen Ry., 18 Atl. 9041; Cincinnati Northern Traction Co. v. Rosnagle, 84

0. S. 310, 35 L. R. A. (N.S.) 1030, 95 N. E. 884.

And see for a more extreme case holding worn coin legal tender, Ruth v. St. Louis Transit Co, 98 Mo. App.

1, 71 S. W. 1055.

3 Pong v. de Lindsay, 1 Dyer 82a.

If by the terms of the original contract provision is made for payment by check or draft, tender may be made in such prescribed manner;14 and the fact that such check or draft is made payable only through a certain specified clearing-house does not render such tender inoperative,15 at least for the purpose of preventing the forfeiture of a lease for non-payment of rent thus tendered.16

4 Grigby v. Oakes, 2 B. & P. 526; Hallowell & Augusta Bank v. Howard, 13 Mass. 235; Donaldson v. Benton, 20 N. Car. (4 Dev. & H.) 435.

5 United States. Servel v Jamieson, 255 Fed 802.

Colorado. Larsen v Breene, 12 Colo. 4S0; 21 Pac. 498.

Illinois. Harding v. Commercial Loan Co., 84 III. 251.

Michigan. Zimmerman v Miller, - Mich - , 173 N. W 364.

Mississippi Collier v. White, 67 Miss. 133, 6 So 618.

Nebraska. Te Poel v. Shutt, 57 Neb. 692, 78 N. W 288.

Washington. Cady v. Case, 11 Wash. 124, 39 Pac. 375.

Wisconsin. Lewis v. Larson, 45 Wis. 353.

6 Zimmerman v. Miller, - Mich. - , 173 N. W. 364.

7 Thome v. San Francisco, 4 Cal. 127; Larsen v. Breene, 12 Colo. 480; Barbour v. Hickey, 2 D. C. App. 207, 24 L R A. 763.

8 Dougherty v. Hughes, 3 Greene (la ) 92.

9 Burlington Voluntary Relief Department v. White, 41 Neb. 547, 561, 43 Am. St. Rep. 701, 69 N. W. 747, 751.

10 Wilson v. McVey, 83 Ind. 108.

1 1 People v Miles, 56 Cal 401; Kentucky Chair Co. v. Commonwealth, 105 Ky 455, 49 S. W 197; Raymond v. State, 54 Miss. 563, 28 Am. Rep. 382; Battle v Thompson, 65 N. Car 406.

12 Northampton Bank v. Balliet, 8 W & S. (Pa ) 311, 42 Am Dec. 297.

Contra, as to payment. Hallowell & Augusta Bank v. Howard, 13 Mass. 235, Coxe v. Bank, 8 N. J. L. 172, 14 Am. Dec. 417.

13 King v. King, 90 Va. 177, 17 S. E. 894.

See also, Pong v. de Lindsay, 1 Dyer 82a.

14 Philadelphia Co. v Renner, 222 Pa. St. 512, 20 L. R. A. (N.S.) 932, 71 Atl. 1056

15 Philadelphia Co v Renner, 222 Pa. St. 512, 20 L R. A. (N.S ) 932, 71 Atl. 1056.

1 6 Philadelphia Co v. Renner, 222 Pa. St. 512, 20 L. R. A. (N.S.) 932, 71 Atl. 1056.