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2020 Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 5. Specific Offenses
Subchapter III. Offenses Involving Property
§ 912 Fraudulent receipt of public lands; class G felony.

Universal Citation:
11 DE Code § 912. (2020)
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§ 912. Fraudulent receipt of public lands; class G felony.

A person is guilty of fraudulent receipt of public lands when the person records any deed or other written instrument purporting to transfer to the person an interest in land any part of which is public lands of this State, when such person at the time of recording knows that the transferor had no legal or equitable interest in the land described in said instrument.

Fraudulent receipt of public lands is a class G felony.

63 Del. Laws, c. 426, § 1;  67 Del. Laws, c. 130, § 8;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 
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