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FORGERY.
No. 4 of 1865.
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(2) offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off any such bill, note, undertaking, warrant, order, authority, or request so drawn, made, signed, accepted, or indorsed by procuration or otherwise without lawful authority or excuse as aforesaid, knowing the same to have been so drawn, made, signed, accepted, or indorsed as aforesaid, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 14 years.
etc., crossing
on cheque.
[24 & 25 Vict. c. 98 s. 25.]
*
27. Whenever any cheque or draft on any banker is crossed with the name of a banker or with two transverse lines with the words "and company," or any abbreviation thereof, every person who-
(1) obliterates, adds to, or alters any such crossing; or (2) offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off any cheque or draft whereon any such obliteration, addition, or alteration has been made,
with intent in any of the cases aforesaid to defraud, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for life.
debenture.
+
28. Every person who forges or fraudulently alters, or offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off, knowing the same to be forged or fraudulently altered, any debenture issued under any lawful authority whatsoever, either within His Majesty's dominions or elsewhere, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 14 years.
of Court.
§
Forgery of records, process, instruments of evidence, etc.
29. Every person who forges or fraudulently alters, or offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off, knowing the same to be forged or fraudulently altered, any record, writ, return, panel, process, rule, order, warrant, interrogatory, deposition, affidavit, recognizance, cognovit actionem, or warrant of attorney, or any original document whatsoever of or belonging to any Court of Record, or any bill, petition, process, notice, rule, answer, pleading, interrogatory, deposition, affidavit, report, order or decree, or any original document whatsoever of or belonging to any Court in this Colony, or any document or writing or any copy of any document or writing used or intended to be used as evidence in any Court mentioned in this section, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 7 years.
* As amended by No. 30 of 1911.
† As amended by No. 30 of 1911, No. 51 of 1911 and No. 22 of 1912.
§ As amended by No. 30 of 1911, No. 50 of 1911 and the Final Revision Ordinance 1912.