` (UTC)  Here's Answers.com's definition for US legal tender: ``Legal Tender is anything that, by law, a debtor may require his creditor to receive in payment of a debt in the absence of the appearance in the contract itself of an agreement for payment in some other manner. The tender is an admission of the debt and, in some jurisdictions, if refused, discharges the debt.``  Interestingly enough, the USC does not have a definition for ``legal tender``, yet utilizes the phrase in a statute. Sigh. Legislators these days.    02:46, 11 March 2009`