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Not quite, legal tender means if someone owes you money, you have to accept it.
by namelost 9y ago
Not quite, legal tender means if someone owes you money, you have to accept it.
- nobodyorother 9y agoNot if you're the US government, apparently? Tim DeChristopher spent 21 months in prison despite how he "had raised sufficient funds for an initial payment to the BLM (which the BLM refused to accept)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#Trial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_DeChristopher#Trial (I bring this up because I'd always wondered about how why that case fell out that way, and apparently it can't, per the common meaning of the terms, so my understanding of legal tender seems correct?)