2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 97 - CRIMES
Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting.
97-21-5 - Certain instruments deemed writings.
§ 97-21-5. Certain instruments deemed writings.
Every instrument, partly written and partly printed, or wholly printed, with a written signature thereto, and every signature of an individual, firm, or corporate body, or of any officer of such body, and every writing purporting to be such signature, shall be deemed a writing and a written instrument within the meaning of the provisions of this chapter.
Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 64, art. 12, Title 4(45); 1857, ch. 64, art. 127; 1871, § 2591; 1880, § 2836; 1892, § 1115; 1906, § 1196; Hemingway's 1917, § 926; 1930, § 953; 1942, § 2183.
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