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Code · Mississippi · Title 97. Crimes · Article 1. General Provisions.

§ 97-21-45. Record of will or other instrument constituting evidence, judgment or decree of court, or return on process.

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Every person who, with intent to defraud, shall falsely alter, destroy, corrupt, or falsify the record of any will, conveyance or other instrument the record of which shall by law be evidence, or any record or any judgment or decree of a court of record, or the enrollment of any such judgment or decree, or the return of an officer, court, or tribunal, to any process of any court, or who shall falsely make, forge, or alter any entry in any book of record, or any instrument purporting to be any such record or return, with intent to defraud, shall, upon conviction, be guilty of forgery.
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