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2013 Mississippi Code
Title 97 - CRIMES
Chapter 21 - FORGERY AND COUNTERFEITING
Article 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 97-21-21 - Destruction, erasure, or obliteration of writing deemed forgery
MS Code § 97-21-21 (2013) What's This?
The total erasure, obliteration, or destruction of any instrument of writing, with the intent to defraud, by which any pecuniary obligation or any right, interest, or claim to property, shall be or shall be intended to be created, increased, discharged, diminished, or in any manner affected, shall be forgery in the same manner and in the same degree as the false alteration of any part of such instrument of writing.
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