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Forging instrument, which is in law a will, etc.

c. 98 s. 39.]

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No. 4 of 1865.

FORGERY.

person, or endeavours to receive or obtain, or to cause or procure to be delivered or paid to any person, any chattel, money, security for money, or other property whatsoever under, upon, or by virtue of any forged or altered instrument whatsoever, knowing the same to be forged or altered, or under, upon, or by virtue of any attested copy of any will, deposited in any registrar's office in this Colony, knowing such will to have been forged or altered, or knowing such attested copy to have been obtained by any false oath or affidavit, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 14 years.

Miscellaneous forgeries.

40. Where by this or by any other Ordinance any person is made liable to punishment for forging or altering, or for offering, uttering, disposing of, or putting off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, any instrument or writing designated in such Ordinance by any special name or description, and such instrument or writing, however designated, is in law a will, or a mortgage, lease, contract, deed, bond, or writing obligatory, or a bill of exchange, or a promissory note for the payment of money, or an indorsement on or assignment of a bill of exchange or promissory note for the payment of money, or an acceptance of a bill of exchange, or an undertaking, warrant, order, authority, or request for the payment of money, or an indorsement on or assignment of an undertaking, warrant, order, authority, or request for the payment of money, within the true intent and meaning of this Ordinance, in every such case the person forging or altering such instrument or writing, or offering, uttering, disposing of, or putting off such instrument or writing, knowing the same to be forged or altered, may be indicted as an offender against this Ordinance and punished accordingly.

Forging, etc., document in the Colony purporting to be made out of the Colony, etc. [ib. s. 40.]

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41.-(1) Where the forging or altering any writing or matter whatsoever, or the offering, uttering, disposing of, or putting off any writing or matter whatsoever, knowing the same to be forged or altered, is in this Ordinance expressed to be an offence, if any person in this Colony forges or alters, or offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, any such writing, or matter, in whatsoever place or country out of this Colony, whether in His Majesty's dominions or not, such writing or matter

* As amended by No. 50 of 1911. As amended by No. 51 of 1911.

purporting to have been made or altered, or to have been offered, uttered, disposed of, or put off, or to have been signed or sealed, or to have been indorsed, in some other place or country, shall be deemed to have committed the like offence, and shall be liable to be indicted and punished accordingly.

(2) And if any person in this Colony, without lawful authority or excuse, demands, receives, or obtains, or endeavours to receive or obtain, any chattel, money, or security for money, or other property whatsoever, under, upon, or by virtue of any such forged or altered writing or matter, knowing the same to be forged or altered, he shall be deemed to have committed the like offence, and shall be liable to be indicted and punished accordingly.

42. In any indictment or proceeding for an offence relating to the forgery of any bill of exchange, or promissory note, or undertaking, warrant, order, authority, or request for the payment of money, it shall be sufficient to describe the same without setting out any copy or facsimile of the whole or any part thereof, or to allege the same to have been ...