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forgery

[ fawr-juh-ree, fohr- ]

noun

plural forgeries.
  1. the crime of falsely making or altering a writing by which the legal rights or obligations of another person are apparently affected; simulated signing of another person's name to any such writing whether or not it is also the forger's name.
  2. the production of a spurious work that is claimed to be genuine, as a coin, a painting, or the like.
  3. something, as a coin, a work of art, or a writing, produced by forgery.
  4. an act of producing something forged. forge.
  5. Archaic. invention; artifice.


forgery

/ ˈɔːəɪ /

noun

  1. the act of reproducing something for a deceitful or fraudulent purpose
  2. something forged, such as a work of art or an antique
  3. criminal law
    1. the false making or altering of any document, such as a cheque or character reference (and including a postage stamp), or any tape or disc on which information is stored, intending that anyone shall accept it as genuine and so act to his or another's prejudice
    2. something forged
  4. criminal law the counterfeiting of a seal or die with intention to defraud
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of forgery1

First recorded in 1565–75; forge 1 + -ery
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He would remove reference numbers from documents and sometimes replace what he had taken with forgeries.

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In addition to the New York cases, Mr Mangione also faces charges of forgery, carrying firearms without a licence, and other counts in Pennsylvania, where authorities arrested him at a McDonald's.

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Defamation, fraud, false light and forgery laws already address the potential of deceptive expression to cause real harm.

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He was formally charged in Pennsylvania with forgery, carrying firearms without a licence, tampering with records or identification, possessing instruments of crime and providing a false identification to police.

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He was convicted of felony forgery in 2003 in Butte County.

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